Legend of the Knight

Chapter 30

February 23.

Auspicious: Going up beams, praying for blessings, accepting wealth.

Taboo: all things are not taboo
Today is the 50th birthday of Jiang Tianxiong, the Heluo hero of Luoyang City. As early as January, Jiang Tianxiong sent people to spread invitations. Heroes from all walks of life will gather in Luoyang City today.

Jiang Tianxiong's birthday banquet is destined to be difficult.

50 years old is an important age for people in Jianghu. It represents that people have passed their prime and entered their twilight years. Therefore, most people in Jianghu will choose to wash their hands at the age of 50 and quit the world.

Jiang Tianxiong, Heluo hero, distributed invitations to birthday banquets, and all sects attached great importance to them. Most of them were headed by the sect leaders who personally brought a few outstanding disciples, or arranged for senior disciples to visit.

Jiang Tianxiong has a very wide network of contacts, not to mention that he is the head of the imperial army and a wealthy businessman in Luoyang. In terms of Jianghu, Jiang Tianxiong has been in the arena for decades since he became famous, and there are many waves in the arena. The Heluo area in the center is calm and calm.

Especially after the six major factions besieged Thunderbolt Hall, Jianghu Zhengdao lost a lot of manpower. At this time, Jiang Tianxiong alone took on the important task of the mainstay.

Ten years ago, after Wu Xiazi entrusted Heluo Wulin to Jiang Tianxiong, in the following ten years, Jiang Tianxiong's reputation had almost reached the peak of Wulin. Heluo is a hero, no one knows, no one knows.

If it wasn't for Xiao Xiami, there would be no more martial arts leader after Xiao Xiami, otherwise Jiang Tianxiong would be the leader.

Of course, there is a saying that people are popular and right and wrong. After Jiang Tianxiong's fame rose, criticisms against him gradually increased.

Among them, the most important point that has been repeated back and forth, is that Jiang Tianxiong is obviously an official (running dog) of the imperial court, so what qualifications does he have to be the leader of the martial arts?
After all, the imperial court and the Jianghu have always been in the same situation, and the relationship between the court and the Jianghu has further deteriorated.

Emperor Shenzong of this dynasty, in order to have enough force to solve some major events or important cases that the emperor himself is more concerned about, specially set up a secret organization outside Jinyiwei, which integrates martial arts masters, spies, catchers and killers.

Because this organization is too secretive to be named, and because the headquarters in the Forbidden Palace is a room facing north, south, east, west and west, there are two doors on each side of the room, a total of six doors, so It is called "Six Doors".

Once the Six Gates was established, countless masters of the rivers and lakes joined the Six Gates, in order to help future generations get rid of low status and transfer to official positions, or simply seek a fortune.

Just like the most powerful person to catch thieves is the robber saint, Liu Fan is particularly good at "handling" gang struggles in the rivers and lakes and martial arts people who have been fighting against the government for a long time.

Of course, when people from the martial arts world are cornered when they are hunted down by the six gates, they can transform themselves and join the six gates.

These people who have committed crimes and performed meritorious deeds are even more ruthless when they bite people in the Jianghu.

Ever since, since the establishment of the six doors, people in the world have been in a dilemma, life and death.

Therefore, the vast majority of martial arts people don't like it when they hear the six doors.

Of course, if it is Shi Gang who has never been in the rivers and lakes and joined the Six Doors as a headhunter, it is okay, after all, they are members of the government.

If someone from the martial arts world joins the Six Doors, he will definitely be despised by the people of Jianghu.

Although Jiang Tianxiong is not from the Six Doors, he is serving in the army after all, so the rumors about him have never stopped.

In recent years, perhaps because he was annoyed by the rumors, Jiang Tianxiong paid little attention to the affairs of the world, and devoted himself to cultivating the disciples of the Tiangang Sect.

As soon as the tiger dozed off, all kinds of Xiaoxiao appeared again, such as Heifengzhai, which was quite noisy during this time.

It was at this time that everyone discovered that Jiang Tianxiong was behind the decades of peace and tranquility in Heluo. Xiong announced on his birthday that he would retire from the rivers and lakes, so the boundary of Heluo is not about to change.

It is said that a tiger father has no dogs, and Jiang Tianxiong has an only son named Jiang Yu. Although he is young, he has already learned the true teaching of his father's Tiangangquan.

Jiang Yu also has extremely high attainments in Buddhism, and was highly appreciated by the abbot of the Baima Temple in Luoyang. He said that if this son enters Buddhism, he will be able to cultivate into a golden arhat in the future.

However, no matter how talented this Jiang Yu is, he is only 19 years old after all, so he may not be able to take on the important task of guarding Heluo.

Therefore, after receiving the invitation card for Jiang Tianxiong's birthday banquet, it was true that the heroes came to pay their respects, and it was also true that they had a wait-and-see attitude.

At the same time, Tiangangmen still has a big problem, it is not a sect of Jianghu.

Although the Tiangang Sect also accepts apprentices to practice martial arts, and Jiang Tianxiong is still a hero of Heluo, but the Jiang family's martial arts practice is just a family tradition. In fact, their status is businessmen, and the apprentices they recruit are used as guards for the gate.

It can be said that Jiang Tianxiong, the patriarch of this generation, came forward to become a hero of the rivers and lakes, which is completely a very unusual thing, but it has never happened before.

In Jiang Yu's generation, no matter whether he can take on the important task of Heluo hero or not, as long as he is still in the arena, he can be regarded as a pillar of righteousness.

What I am most afraid of is that Jiang Tianxiong announced his retirement, and Jiang Yu will not set foot in the arena, then the entire Tiangang Sect will be considered to be out of the arena.

In this way, the impact on martial arts is so great that it will directly change the structure of martial arts.

In the current Jianghu martial arts world, there are six sects in total, namely Xiaoyao Valley, Shaolin, Wudang, Huashan, Beggars, and Tianshan. Among them, Xiaoyao Valley is a branch of the original Xiaoyao Sect, and another branch of Xiaoyao Sect evolved together with the Kunlun Sect. Tianshan School.

The ranking and identification of these six sects is a bit peculiar, and it was judged by someone specially.

Many years ago, a Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng appeared out of nowhere in the arena. He would evaluate the fighting strength of martial arts schools at the end of every year, that is to say, whoever is as much as he says is as much as he is.

From top to bottom, Bai Xiaosheng only commented on the top ten sects, and the top six were the six sects.

In recent years, the Tiangang Sect, which has been in the limelight, has always been ranked seventh. The difference between it and the Tianshan Sect, which is ranked sixth, is very significant, not to mention the top three sects.

In this regard, many people are not convinced. Why do you decide the world rankings? Who are you?

It's just that Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng never distinguishes scriptures with others, his whereabouts are unpredictable, and when someone tries to entangle him forcibly, he will be thrown away at will.

Until a few years ago, when Xiaoyao Valley conquered Tianyi City and suppressed everyone, even if Wuxiazi was the only one left in Xiaoyao Valley, he would still be the top of the six factions.

Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng's combat power list, the big guys are finally willing to believe it.

The emergence of the combat power list, Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng said, is to encourage various sects to cultivate disciples, because this list does not require you to participate in fighting, and if you are strong, you are strong, and there is no need to prove it.

Fifteen years ago, the six sects lost a large number of disciples, which led to a hiatus.

Now which sect recovers from the outage period first, it can quickly climb up the combat power list.

For example, from the ranking of combat power three years ago, the Wudang faction surpassed the Huashan faction, ranking third, and looking at the posture, the Wudang faction has the momentum to rush to second.

Talented people come out from generation to generation, and in the past two years, a new generation of righteous disciples has also begun to emerge in the arena.

This time, the masters of various sects brought their disciples to Jiang Tianxiong's birthday banquet, and they also had the idea of ​​bringing their disciples to open their eyes and let the elders of the martial arts meet.

These many factors overlapped together, and this birthday banquet can be said to be the most important event in the entire martial arts world in the past ten years.

For this day, Huang Xiaoshi has prepared and planned for a long time. For him, today will be a long and busy day.

……

In the morning, after Huang Xiaoshi ate beef offal soup in Granny Huai's store, he took a walk along the street to digest his food.

When Huang Xiaoshi turned the third circle along the street, the door of an unremarkable residential building opened.

When Huang Xiaoshi saw it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he rushed in with a whoosh.

This residential house looks no different from ordinary residential houses, and the furnishings in the room are also quite satisfactory, except for a huge screen in the living room, which is a bit out of place with the surrounding environment.

Huang Xiaoshi went to the back of the screen, and stepped on a floor three times in a row. After a while, a floor popped out from bottom to top. Huang Xiaoshi bent down to lift the floor, and a narrow staircase was exposed under the floor. It was dark under the stairs, and I couldn't see anything.

Huang Xiaoshi calmly walked down the stairs, he also pulled the floor over and covered it up.

One, two, three... Ten, turn.

One, two, three... Ten, turn.

After turning two turns, I could vaguely see lights coming through from below.

After turning two more ten-step turns, Huang Xiaoshi had already entered a basement with a length and width of about twenty steps.

I saw that the basement was lit with lights everywhere, and the wind came from nowhere, and it was neither stuffy nor dim.

In the basement, three or five people have gathered together.

This private house was originally built by a certain dignitary for some ulterior motives. Later, the dignitary committed a crime and the whole family died, so this private house was sold off cheaply by the government.

One day, the people who lived in this house discovered the basement, but such a large space is not very useful for ordinary people, even if it is used by people, it would cost more lamp oil and climb stairs.

Later, this ventilated and soundproof basement was bought by someone, and a famous underground casino in Luoyang was built, specializing in black boxing.

This gambling boxing is divided into two parts.

One is that spectators bet on both sides of the field.

The second is to be able to fight by yourself.

Don't look at a small black boxing casino, if it can be opened in Luoyang City, it means that it is not easy at all.

Huang Xiaoshi was brought here to play by Guan Wei, the second head of the Changhong Escort, and in the following half a year, Huang Xiaoshi would come here to gamble from time to time, just to get acquainted.

Today Huang Xiaoshi rushed in as soon as he opened the door, not because his hands were itchy and waiting to gamble, but because a very important and special person will come to the underground casino today, Huang Xiaoshi has been planning for this day for a long time.

Now, Huang Xiaoshi is waiting, not knowing whether the master will come today or not.

After all, the plot has changed, and some plot characters may not appear.

Huang Xiaoshi's guess was right, the plot of the game has indeed changed, but the butterfly fanning the wind is not his one, but another one, a big one.

……

In the underground casino, the most eye-catching thing is a tall and strong man. He has a beard and a bald head. A monk, judging by his evil spirit and fierce look, he looks seven points like a pig butcher.

This is the ever-victorious champion in the underground casino, no ring.

Rumor has it that Wujie is a monk from the Bodhidharma Hall of Shaolin Temple. He is not familiar with Buddhist scriptures, but his martial arts cultivation is extremely high. Because he got tired of the clear rules and precepts, he rebelled against Shaolin.

Wujie has made a lot of money by fighting black boxing in underground casinos in the past few years, but the money comes and goes faster.

Whenever Wujie squandered all his money, he would return to the underground casino to fight. Right now, he has won 99 games in a row.

Next to the thick Wujie, there are two guys who are dressed differently from ordinary people.

Although February is warm and the flowers are blooming, it is not hot yet. A guy is wearing a brown short jacket, which is deliberately opened to reveal a piece of black hair on his chest and abdomen. Endless obscenity.

Although the other guy was neatly dressed, there were two earrings made of dice hanging from his earlobe, and he was playing with a few dice like flowers in his hands, and his slender eyes were full of sly light.

Huang Xiaoshi recognized at a glance that these two strange people are the four thieves [whoring] and [gambling].But not doing their business yet, Huang Xiaoshi found a place to lean against the wall and wait quietly.

The underground casino doesn't open every day, it only opens three times a month, and every time it opens, there are many people who come to play.

After a while, there were more and more people in the underground casino. The dealer saw that there were many people coming, so he shouted loudly: "Come on, come on, the market is open. The hundredth game without precepts, as long as you win If there is no precept, you can get 40000 cash, and if you lose, you will lose 500 cash."

After the dealer yelled three times, someone really stepped forward to challenge Wujie.

I saw that this person had a thick waist and round arms, and he was dressed like a hunter in the mountains.

"Dealer, I'll fight." The hunter couldn't bear it anymore, and stepped forward a few steps to the white circle painted with lime.

"Okay, this strong man wants to challenge Wujie." The banker immediately shouted loudly when he saw it, "Please pay five hundred coins first."

As soon as the hunter touched his body, where did he get the 500 Wen, he was anxious, took off the gold thread bow hanging on his waist, handed it to the dealer, and said, "Here, use this bow to pay."

The dealer glanced at the golden thread bow. To be honest, this bow might be worth seven or eight hundred coins, but if it was sold from his own hands, it would be considered good if it could be sold for three hundred coins.

Although the dealer is not very satisfied with the gambling money, but after all, it is the first game in the morning, so it is good to warm up for the non-abstinence fever.

"Come on, come on, the housekeepers want to place bets, so hurry up." The dealer yelled at everyone, "If you win without a ring, you will lose 40 to 1; if you beat this strong man, you will lose 1 to 40."

Just as the banker shouted hard, a dark-skinned person appeared in the crowd of the underground casino at some point.

This man is tall and has messy hair. He is wearing a dark brown rotten robe with no sleeves and no trousers. The whole body is tied up with a black trouser belt tied around his waist.

This man stood on the ground with bare feet, and at first glance, he was the kind of person who had no money and no quality.

However, if someone who knows the goods can tell at a glance, what this person is wearing is not some rotten robe, but a sleeveless karate suit.

If Huang Xiaoshi hadn't been scanning the crowd with his eyes all the time, he couldn't believe that there were so many masters in such a small space, and this person would still appear and blend into the crowd without anyone noticing.

This is the mysterious person Huang Xiaoshi has been waiting for for a long time: Hao Gui.

(End of this chapter)