Baojian

Chapter 27

"Is this Zheng Banqiao's "Picture of Orchid, Bamboo and Stone"?"

When Qin Feng glanced at the painting hanging on the desk, he couldn't help showing a look of astonishment on his face, and hurried forward a few steps, almost putting his face on the painting.

"That's right, it's Zheng Banqiao's "Picture of Orchid, Bamboo and Stone". Lao Xia, where did you get this treasure?"

After observing for a long time, Qin Feng looked away reluctantly. This painting outlines the abrupt mountain rocks with a simple and vigorous brushstroke, and slightly wrinkled the whole hard and thin stone folds with a small axe, and the awkward state suddenly emerged.

The bamboo poles in the painting are thin and thin, but not weak, and the bamboo leaves are few and plump, and there is no shortage of green and strong; one bamboo pole stands tall, while the other bamboos are intertwined and mixed, echoing the virtual and real, thick and light, high and low, and near and far.

Zheng Banqiao writes an inscription on almost every painting. The calligraphy on this painting is unique, free and easy, and vigorous. Qin Feng practiced brush calligraphy with his father when he was five years old. Even though he has no conditions in recent years, he can still see Good or bad.

"Do you know Zheng Banqiao?" The old man Xia, who was originally sitting on the grand teacher's chair, couldn't sit still now. He thought that Qin Feng had a good talent, but now it seems that he has found a treasure.

Qin Feng turned around and said honestly: "I... I've heard people mention it, and I've seen this painting, but it's in the album, is yours real or fake? "

Mr. Liu was born in a scholarly family, and he can be called a versatile man in both civil and military affairs, and the ancient literati he admires most is Zheng Banqiao, whose "rarely confused" writing can be confused with real ones.

Out of his own preference, when the old man discussed calligraphy and painting to Qin Feng, he naturally favored Zheng Banqiao. The album Qin Feng was talking about was an album of Zheng Banqiao's complete works of calligraphy and painting published by Taidao.

"Nonsense, what I hang up, can it be fake?"

Old Xia's head looked as if he had been insulted, and his eyes widened again, "What is this painting? I think it was "Five Bulls in the Tang Dynasty" and "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". I just played around with it. This painting is nothing!"

Speaking of this, the old head suddenly thought of something, calmed down, waved his hands, and said with a self-deprecating face: "What are you talking about, boy, I won't go around with you anymore, I want to take you as a disciple Pass on my mantle, are you going to be a teacher?"

As he spoke, Old Man Xia sat up straight, and his face became serious. There seemed to be an indescribable pressure around him, and he didn't look like the old farmer before.

"Lao Xia, I don't want to learn your stuff. If I do your job, I will lose all face."

Qin Feng shook his head. Although he didn't hear his parents mentioning about his grandparents in his memory, Qin Feng knew that his parents were both teachers. It must be good if he went up to his family. If he became a thief, then Qin Feng really Wuyan went to see his "dead" parents.

The old man looked at Qin Feng playfully, and asked, "My profession, which profession am I?"

"Aren't you just a fitter?" Qin Feng stretched out two fingers and made a movement of stealing a wallet in his pocket, with a look of contempt on his face.

From the detention center to the correctional center, Qin Feng has been imprisoned for several months. In these two places, there are two kinds of prisoners who are most despised.

One is rape-rapists. Almost all prisoners who come in because of this crime will be beaten up first. Their status in prison is extremely low.

And one kind is thieves, they are also street rats... Everyone shouts and beats them. Of course, those famous thief kings in the early years are not in this ranks, and those are already big names with status in the world.

"Farting, knowing and doing are two different things, I'm still a Baylor..."

Old man Xia seemed to realize that he had slipped his tongue, sighed immediately, and said, "The things I want to teach you include the skills of the entire world, not limited to stealing...

And having said that, those who steal the hook will be punished, those who steal the country will be punished, and the thief will not be completely useless. Back then, there was no such thing as the ancestor of the thief, so Wu Zetian might not be able to sit still! "

"You... what are you talking about? I can't quite understand it!"

Although Qin Feng is smart, he is only a thirteen or fourteen year old child. He was confused by the fact that Wu Zetian was involved in the outlaws and robbery.

"Okay, let me first tell you what the eight foreign elements are called. Now there are not many people who know these things..."

The old man stood up, picked up the boiling kettle on the stove behind the door, made himself a pot of tea, took out his long tobacco rod, filled a bag of cigarettes, and then said: "Outside eight lines, in the In addition to the 360 ​​lines in ancient times, they are not included in the list of businessmen, and do not belong to the category of workers, peasants, soldiers, students, and businessmen, but where there are people, there are eight lines outside..."

The old man Xia spoke in a low voice, but what he said was something Qin Feng had never heard before. No one expected that on such a quiet spring morning, a young man would be brought into the rivers and lakes.

The so-called eight lines outside the rivers and lakes are divided into eight partial industries: gold points, beggars, thieves, thieves, inverted buckets, walking mountains, leading fires, and collecting water.

There is a collective name for the eight trades, which is called "Five Elements and Three Schools". The gold point is a fortune-telling line, the thieves are a road robbery line, the fighting is a tomb robbery line, walking the mountain is deception, leading fire is Gu art, and collecting water is official prostitution.

It seems that there are only eight trades, but in fact, these eight schools cover almost all the side schools in the Jianghu, and almost all the Jianghu schools from ancient times to the present are inseparable from them.

Among the eight foreign trades, the biggest one and the one that has always been prosperous is naturally the robbery door. Many transactions without capital in the world can be classified as the robbery door.

Whether it is a snitch who visits thousands of households, or a bandit who occupies one side and pulls a flag.Even the alchemist who digs graves in the wilderness, these are all thieves.

The most mysterious of the Outer Eight Elements is Qianmen. According to ancient legend, Qianmen was established by Fuxi, the patriarch who deduces gossip. It has become a means of intrigue.

Thousands... It can also be called cheating, including 'collude', 'sex cheat', 'fraud', 'kidnapping', 'deception', 'rape cheating', 'pretending to cheat', phase cheating, etc. foot.

More than half a century ago, in Dashang-Tang, deceit was the most prevalent. Many new arrivals there were often sold and paid for by others, creating a deformed and prosperous society.

In addition to Qianmen Pirates, the red handkerchiefs that make a living by performing tricks, the magic tricks that pretend to be gods and ghosts, and the tricks of wooden cows and horses, have gradually declined.

There are only two other sects that are still prosperous, and the first one is of course the Orchid Sect.

The sex business has a long history dating back to the matriarchal society. Although it is cast aside by others, no matter how the previous imperial court or the modern government suppressed it, no matter how the world evaluates it, the orchid industry has been thriving.

As for the last sect still remaining in the Jianghu, it is a little far away from the life of ordinary people, but it is the bloodiest and the most international so far.

The founders of Suomingmen are Zhuan Zhu and Yaoli. These two famous assassins who were earlier than Jing Ke have been revered as patriarchs by the Suoming lineage for thousands of years.

But Suo Ming Yi Sect was not the idea of ​​exchanging life for money before. Whether it was Zhuan Zhu, Yao Li, Jing Ke, or Wu Ming, Bai Ren, these famous assassins in history all acted on the belief of serving the people and the world. The great cause that knows that "the strong man will never return when he is gone".

The sect of extorting life eventually evolved into a situation where people took money and extorted lives for others, which was entirely caused by the order of Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty to kill the eight foreign elements.

The most famous Suomingmen in modern times is familiar to everyone, that is, Wang Yaqiao from Dashanghai, and only he can make Du Yuesheng apologize and make amends, and keep Mr. Jiang awake at night.

"Old Xia, why are you telling me this?"

When old man Xia was talking about this, Qin Feng suddenly interrupted him, saying: "Now it's not before liberation, what you said has long since died, and what does it have to do with me?"

"Listen to me, you boy!"

The old man Xia who was talking vigorously glared at Qin Feng angrily, and then said: "The eight foreign sects originally did their own thing, but when Zhu Yuanzhang won the world in the Ming Dynasty, things changed...

Zhu Yuanzhang was originally a member of the rivers and lakes, and he had been a monk and a thieves. He knew very well the dangers of the members of the rivers and lakes to the imperial court's rule, so after he became emperor, he wanted to eradicate all eight sects.

With the butcher's knife raised above their heads, these Jianghu people naturally refused to poke their necks. However, although they each have their own abilities, a mess of scattered sand is ultimately no match for the imperial army.

Later, an expert came out of Qianmen, who integrated the eight outer gates, turned from bright to dark, passed the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, and only slowed down in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

In order to thank this expert, the Outer Eight Sects jointly promoted him as the head of the sect. From then on, the Outer Eight Sects set up another main gate, which is dedicated to obeying the order of the sect master, and as long as the sect master orders, each sect has to respect, Offenders will be punished...

Wu Liuqi, the iron beggar in the early Qing Dynasty, was the head of the Outer Eight Sects, but since Wu Liuqi, the lineage of the main sect has withered, and no strong figures have emerged.

By the time of Qianlong, the main sect had already existed in name only, and each sect had returned to the situation before the Ming Dynasty fighting against each other, but... the inheritance has continued all the time, and has not been cut off! "

Having said that, Old Man Xia shut his mouth, and fixed his eyes on Qin Feng. He believed that with Qin Feng's intelligence, he should be able to hear what he wanted to express in these words.

PS: The setting of the Outer Eight Gates comes from Mr. Gao Yang's "Thousand Gates". It is a very interesting book, friends can read it.

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