It was the early morning of September 2, the second day of the University of Hong Kong.

Huo Yaowen got up early, went to the public bathroom to wash up and finish his appearance, and went out with a brown briefcase.

Because he only needs to teach philosophy classes to freshmen, Huo Yaowen is still very relaxed in terms of time, and the first philosophy class is also tomorrow, so while he is still free today, he has to go out to find a newsstand to buy a copy of "Oriental Daily".

Although there are also newspaper kiosks in the school and many newspapers from various newspapers of the day are always available in the library, the "Oriental Daily" has only just started, and today is the first time that the newspaper has published its first newspaper.

In addition, Huo Yaowen had already asked the school newsstand yesterday, and the person who sold the newspaper said that he didn't know that there was a newspaper called "Oriental Daily", and he didn't seem to think about contacting to get the goods.

So in order to avoid not being able to buy it at the school's kiosk, he had to go out early and look for the newsstand outside the university to see if he could buy it.

Holding his teaching card and leaving the gate of the University of Hong Kong, Huo Yaowen walked straight towards the bus stop.

...

The University of Hong Kong is located on Pokfulam Road East on Hong Kong Island, which was a bustling area in later generations, but at present, it is not the main bustling street in Hong Kong.

Newsstands are not available everywhere either.

Huo Yaowen took the bus, and after three stops, he came to a more prosperous neighborhood.

I got out of the car, looked around, and finally found a newsstand on the left side of a three-way intersection.

Huo Yaowen walked straight over, looked at a middle-aged man in his thirties who was fiddling with the newspaper in front of the newsstand, and opened his mouth to ask, "Boss, is there any Oriental Daily?" ”

When the newsstand owner heard the movement, he glanced back at Huo Yaowen and said in surprise: "It's really time for you to come, just now a few people who claim to be from Oriental Daily have brought a bundle of "Oriental Daily" for me to sell. ”

"Yes?!" Huo Yaowen smiled and said, "Then bring me one." ”

"Okay, you wait. The newsstand owner went inside the newsstand and rummaged through the bundle of newspapers that the gang had just brought in.

There are many newspapers in Hong Kong, and each newspaper has its own sales channels, in addition to cooperating with the kiosks in various neighborhoods and streets in Hong Kong, they will also be sold in some tea houses, hotels, schools and other public areas.

Occasionally, newspaper boys are hired to sell newspapers to bus passengers or pedestrians on the side of the road.

Moreover, in addition to some big newspapers, such as "Ming Pao", "Ta Kung Pao", "Wen Wei Po", which are well-known in Hong Kong, it is very common in the Hong Kong newspaper industry to take a bundle of newspapers and sell them to the newsstand owner free of charge.

In particular, the private black newspapers that do not have a regular newspaper number are almost all YY novels full of pornography and obscenity.

Privately printed black newspapers like this are directly arranged by people to deliver them from newsstand to newsstand after newsstand in Hong Kong.

Moreover, because the content of pornographic black newspapers has nothing to do with the news and does not have the current affairs of regular newspapers, even if it is a newspaper last year, as long as there are readers who have not read the YY content in it, it will definitely be able to sell.

As a result, the profits of those small black newspapers are very high, and except for newspapers like "Ming Pao," which sell 70,000 or 80,000 copies a day, basically most medium-sized newspapers are absolutely and absolutely unable to compare with this kind of pornographic small black newspapers in terms of profit.

On the one hand, there is the cost of investment, and on the other hand, there is the cost of labor.

There are hard standards for the paper of regular newspapers, and too poor paper is not allowed to be used, and even if it is used, it will make the readers who buy the newspaper feel disgusted, and the gains outweigh the losses.

On the other hand, those pornographic newspapers, it doesn't matter whether the paper used is good or not, and it doesn't matter who reads it.

It was not until the 80s that this kind of pornographic newspaper that had always existed in the newsstand and never placed on the shelves of the newsstand officially stood out from the grading system, and it was also born that hundreds of adult magazines and weekly, such as "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard", "Fire Kirin", "Man", "Tibetan Spring Pavilion" and "Anti-aircraft Cannon", which were popular in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia.

For a time, the sales of pornographic weekly magazines far surpassed those of regular newspapers, and they became the most profitable newspaper in Hong Kong.

...

After Huo Yaowen bought a newspaper from the newsstand owner, he didn't read it immediately, but found a small ice room, went in and ordered a sandwich, and a cup of iced coffee, before eating morning tea and reading the contents of the newspaper.

Huo Yaowen did not rush to read the content of the supplement, but started to read the front of the newspaper, spread out the newspaper, and the first eye-catching headline that caught his eye was: "Chicago anti-war crowds clash with the police, more than 100 dead and wounded!!"

Seeing this title, Huo Yaowen continued to read it.

At about 9 a.m. on August 28, more than thousands of young men and women took to the streets of Chicago to protest and demonstrate against the Vietnam War, led by Marilyn Kazi, who shouted "The whole world is watching!"

In order to prevent the situation from spreading, the local police urgently mobilized thousands of riot police, each wearing blue helmets, armed with sticks and tear gas.

The confrontation lasted three hours on Bossa Road in Chicago, until a young woman suddenly fainted while trying to negotiate with the police, causing an unwitting procession to mistake the police for a violent drive and a serious riot.

At that time, the scene was chaotic, with more than 5,000 people and passers-by participating in the group fight.

Instead of explaining, the local police brandished sticks and used tear gas to attack the young people who were marching against the war, killing more than three people and injuring 100 others..."

Seeing this, Huo Yaowen pursed his lips, couldn't help but think of a sentence on the Internet in later generations, and sighed with a smile: "It turns out that what is said on the Internet is true, the American people have really been living in dire straits!"

Immediately, Huo Yaowen didn't continue to read, and directly turned to the supplement of the newspaper, with an eye-catching headline on the front page, which reads "Ghost Blows the Lamp - Notes on Tomb Robbery".

...

A neighborhood in Mong Kok, Kowloon.

"The old man (boss) gave me a report. ”

A middle-aged man dressed in glasses walked outside a newsstand and shouted to the boss who was taking care of the newspaper inside.

"Okay, wait a minute. ”

The boss answered, but his body was still sorting out the goods inside.

The middle-aged man was not in a hurry, but lowered his head and looked at the other newspapers and magazines on the newsstand shelves, wanting to see if there were any interesting reading materials.

After sweeping around, the middle-aged man noticed a newspaper called "Oriental Daily", and couldn't help frowning, this newspaper didn't seem to have read it, and subconsciously picked it up and flipped through it.

There is nothing to see on the front page, the "Chicago riots" had been reported by Ming Pao's newspaper as early as two days ago, and the middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head.

Just about to put it down, the middle-aged ghost opened the supplement inside, and looked at the seven big characters of the eye-catching title on the front page of the supplement "Ghost Blowing the Lantern - Tomb Robbery Notes", and at the same time he was puzzled, he couldn't help but continue browsing with curiosity.

"Foreword: This is an unknown history, this is a wild story buried in the long river of history, this is a profession of the eight outer lines that has been handed down since ancient times, and this is a legendary story of "thirty-six lines, tomb robbery is king". ”

As soon as he finished reading the preface, the newsstand owner took a brand-new folded Ming Pao and shouted, "Here you go." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he hurriedly raised his head and took the "Ming Pao" in the other party's hand, waved the "Oriental Daily" in his hand and said, "Oh, I want this newspaper too." ”

"Two sheets are two cents in total. ”

"Here you go. ”

After the middle-aged man paid, the waiting bus happened to arrive at this time, and he hurriedly stuffed two newspapers into his briefcase and ran to the bus that was about to arrive.

Finally squeezed into the bus, and seeing that there was no place to sit, the middle-aged man had to stand by the window.

On the way to the company, the middle-aged man remembered the two newspapers in his briefcase, and he didn't take out the Ming Pao first, but took out the "Oriental Daily" first.

Skipped the front page and looked at the novel in the supplement.

“... Chen Daring listened to the blind fortune teller's analysis of the Lingshan tomb, and couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart: [Sir, why are you so familiar with this tomb?

The blind fortune teller laughed and said, "Secret art does exist. ]

Chen Daring's eyes lit up and asked, "Sir, can you?"

The blind fortune teller shook his head: [No, this is the secret technique of touching the golden school captain. ]

Chen Daring was puzzled: [What is Captain Touching Gold?]

[Captain Touches Gold!]

The blind fortune teller seemed to have returned to his former memory, and with infinite feelings and memories in his heart, he said slowly:

[In 1911, the Central Plains was in a turbulent era, when thieves were rampant, horse bandits were rampant, foreigners bullied the weak, and bullied our great rivers and mountains......

In such a great era, there is such a strong man, standing in the middle of the rivers and lakes, convening 36 green forest heroes from 18 provinces, responding to the call of Mr. Sun, the father of the country, gathered together to unveil the rod one after another, and jointly overthrew the feudal and pedantic Qing Dynasty......]

With the slow elaboration of the blind fortune teller, Sun Daring thought that in that turbulent era, there were such heroes who could summon the heroes of the 36 green forests in the 18 provinces of the country to rise up one after another, and he couldn't help but yearn for it, and his heart was full of passion, and he couldn't help but ask again: [I don't know who this hero is!]

[Since ancient times, there are thirty-six lines of making a living, there are rules for the line, the line is different, and the line is not connected. However, under the means of this strongman, he not only integrated the 36 lines of the world in just one year, gathered hundreds of thousands of green forest heroes, but also founded the national 36 lines of the Great Guild, unified the north and south livelihood industries, and became the first industry leader. This powerful and powerful leader who dominates the world is the last captain I just said about touching gold. ]

[Thirty-six lines of unification across the country, hundreds of thousands of heroes in the green forest, the establishment of the North and South Guilds, and the first industry leader, can be described as heroes since ancient times, but so!]

Zhang Daring heard this secret news of the Republic of China, clenched his fists, and the whole person was emotional, every time he thought of this hero to unify the north and south of the green forest, and become the first leader of the 36 green forests in history that has never been seen since ancient times, he couldn't wait to be born 20 years early, see the true face of this hero, and experience his legendary road with his own life.

The blind fortune teller recalled: [At that time, there was such a sentence among the green forests of the Republic of China: Thirty-six lines, touching gold is the king; heroes unveil the rod, and the heroes chase the deer; the dragon's head commands, don't dare to disobey; the world is crowded, only I steal the king!!]

Zhang Daring couldn't help but be excited, grabbed the arm of the blind fortune teller, and begged bitterly: [Sir, don't be like this, don't be like this, tell me quickly, tell me quickly what kind of person this hero is, what kind of person is it!!]

When the blind fortune teller heard this, he laughed loudly, and after a long time, he smiled and said word by word with a look of admiration: [Thirty years of the Republic of China, unifying the green forests of the north and south, and being the head of the 36 line presidents, was ordered by Mr. Sun, the father of the country, to "serve the country and the people" four big characters, and the last captain of the king of tomb robbers... The dragon head overlord thief king Huo Hero is also!]"

As time passed, the middle-aged man gradually became obsessed with this story called "Ghost Blows the Lantern - Notes on Tomb Robbery", and he was fascinated by it.

Until the end of the chapter, the blind fortune teller told a legendary story of the thirty years of the green forest of the Republic of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the dragon head of the outer eight elements of the thirty-six lines, and the king of tomb robbers.

The middle-aged man sighed unsatisfied, and couldn't help but think of a break in the text just now, and opened his mouth to read: "Thirty-six lines, touch the gold as the king; the hero unveils the rod, and the heroes compete with the deer; the dragon's head commands, don't dare to disobey; the world is crowded, only I steal the king!! This is really powerful!!"

At this time, there was a person behind the man who excitedly praised again and again: "Amazing, I didn't expect there to be such a great character during the Republic of China!"

Then the man said, "Sir, you just read that newspaper? I'll buy one later." ”

"Oriental Daily" The middle-aged man said impatiently and casually.

At this moment, the middle-aged man, like Zhang Daring in the article, is full of thoughts about the "thirty-six line governor dragon head, unifying the north and south green forests, the last captain who touches gold, and the king of tomb robbers, Huo Yingying," who is it!!

When I thought of such a strong man in that magnificent era, who made such an earth-shattering event, my heart was like Zhang Daring, and I couldn't wait to be born twenty years early, return to that era, and witness the legendary road of the thief Huo Hero.

Unconsciously , such a powerful legendary hero of the Republic of China is just the hero of a fictional novel.

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