Chapter 1: The Last Disciple of the Holy Gate
In the twenty-first year of Jingyuan, I went down the mountain after learning from the Holy Gate of Thieves, and following the requirements of the master, I went to the Six Gates to apply for the Jianghu Division. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
When I learned that I was going to do this job, I was extremely unwilling, according to my original thoughts, I wanted to learn a thief, and I was going to go to the rivers and lakes to experience it, drink the spiciest wine, eat the most expensive dishes, and soak the most beautiful girls.
I was an orphan, and when Master picked me up, I was abandoned in a bush on the banks of the Liuhua River. At that time, the rivers and lakes had just experienced an earth-shattering catastrophe, when the world's masters were discussing swords on the top of Huashan, a big devil was born, making a big fuss about the sword conference, and killing eleven super-first-class masters on the rivers and lakes, and the rivers and lakes entered the era of the Great Depression.
Master took me back to the Holy Gate of Thieves, taught me to read and write, and taught me the art of stealing. In the big competition before leaving the school, I successfully performed the thief of the Holy Gate, and in front of everyone's eyes, I stole the trouser belts of the six senior brothers into my hands, and was praised by the master as carrying the hope of the revival of the Holy Gate, and then on the first night before going down the mountain, I was beaten by the master to the dark, the world was turned upside down, and finally my conscience was discovered, and I decided to change my mind and came to the capital.
At this time, the rivers and lakes have just experienced a bloody storm.
Under the strong cleaning of the six gates, all the major sects responded to the call of the imperial court, put up white paint, and painted their own mountain gates white and clean.
The three major Taoist sects, including Wudang Mountain, Longhu Mountain, and Maoshan Mountain, established the Taoist United Association, which became a religious organization in one fell swoop. The bald donkeys of Shaolin in the north and south were not to be outdone, and they also started the washing, cutting and blowing business with scissors. As for the six major sects, they either joined the army or attached themselves to the imperial court, and started a serious business. And our thieves and beggars ushered in the cold winter on the rivers and lakes.
In addition, Xilong Jianghu has carried out a strict crackdown, and the peers of the thief immortal gate have run to our territory to grab business, for which the two sects have carried out several battles, which directly led to the sharp decline in our business indicators of stealing the holy gate, and we cannot make ends meet.
In the face of such a grim situation, the master of the gate, Ximen Blowing Lantern, decided to hold a symposium to discuss the transformation of the gang, and I don't know which senior brother's ghost idea was to send a disciple to infiltrate the six gates to carry out a glorious and great mission, and I became the executor of this task.
The reason is also very simple, I am an orphan, and I am the youngest disciple of the Holy Gate, I have always learned art in the door, I have no bad credit records in the government, and I am innocent.
I can use the convenience of my identity to cover for my fellow disciples and brothers in the future, not to mention anything else, just to get people from the government, it costs a lot of silver taels to steal the Holy Gate every year, rather than cheapening outsiders, it is better to select the backbone disciples from this sect to join the six gates.
I have six senior brothers, the senior brother flying on the grass, the second senior brother floating on the water, the third senior brother drilling the monkey, the fourth senior brother Scud, the fifth senior brother with three legs, and the sixth senior brother Shenxing Taibao. However, how can I not get my shoes wet when I stand by the river, and these six senior brothers have basically been caught in the number several times.
I heard from the sixth senior brother, Shenxing Taibao, that there are two reasons for Master's arrangement this time, one is because I am growing my body, the amount of food is too large, and I eat several rations for one person, and I don't work, which brings a great burden to the sect's hibernation plan. After deliberation, they unanimously elected me. The second reason is because of a bet he made with the Chrysanthemum Ancestor, the master of the Thief Immortal Gate, and I don't know what he bet on.
A few decades ago, the thief of the Holy Gate and the thief of the Immortal Gate were originally a family, and the ancestors enshrined in the ancestral hall were all thieves of the saint He Daozi, and later the two factions parted ways because of differences in academic theories, and each became a faction.
I've always felt that the people who robbed the Immortal Gate were hypocritical, and they always looked down on us.
The thief of the immortal gate has always been orthodox, the disciples in the door at every turn on the petty theft of baht, the big theft of the land, the huge theft of the heavenly luck on the lips, the result annoyed the imperial court, in a dark and windy night, the imperial court sent three thousand iron horsemen, the thief immortal gate to destroy the door.
Originally, stealing things is stealing things, so we have to raise this thing to the academic level, and we also went to Xiaosheng Jianghu to publish papers, claiming that the world's luck gathering and dispersing skills are skillful, advocating the big bang theory of luck in the rivers and lakes, and doing things in this stall, it is strange that the court does not take you under the knife.
Before going down the mountain, the master told him that in the future, he should focus on the overall situation and the society of the country, work hard, punish the good and promote the evil, promote the truth, goodness and beauty, and be a qualified catcher in the future.
Walking out of the mountain gate, these words were said again.
When I was learning the arts, I said a joke several times, and as a result, those of us who were disciples suffered from it, and every time we listened to a half-new joke, we not only had to laugh, but also laughed really and sweetly, and we had to pretend to hear it for the first time. If any of the senior brothers who don't open their eyes say something about Master, you just said yesterday, what awaits him is a storm of care.
I stood in the cold wind, looking at the cotton clothes on his body, and couldn't help nodding, the master taught me well, and the master was right. Before leaving, Master took out a letter of recommendation and a fragment from his bosom, and when I saw it, there were three big characters written on it: "Stealing the Sutra."
Master said that this book was created by the ancestor He Daozi, and it is divided into two volumes.
In the first volume, it is recorded that the ancestor was a master of theft when he walked the rivers and lakes. As for the next volume, the ghost knows what is written, it is estimated that the content is not good, anyway, for decades, we have prospered in thieves of the Holy Gate, and the talents of the Thief Sect have withered, and we have to rely on the help of the master every year to barely live.
The master handed me this book, saying that he wanted me to study this volume seriously in my spare time, and if I had the opportunity to meet the rabbit cubs who stole the fairy gate, I would easily get the next volume together, and learn the master's master's master's master's knowledge.
I said, you see, the apprentice is about to wander the rivers and lakes and start a new life, you don't give me one or two weapons to take advantage of, otherwise I will go to the capital in the future and be bullied, what will I do? The master was right to think about it, and took out half of the nest head from his arms.
What kind of baby is this, I asked?
This is the half of my nest that I have left over from my daily thrift.
What's the use?
You can eat it.
I pretended to be grateful, squeezed out a few tears and said: The days in the mountain gate are bitter, such as today's cold and freezing, a few senior brothers are not successful, gnawing the old all day long, this half of the nest is your winter rations, the sheep have the grace of kneeling milk, the crow has the righteousness of feeding, I don't know when I will return, how can the disciples be so ungrateful, this half of the nest is comparable to a stone, I want to really take it, in the future you will teach a few senior brothers also lack a handy home.
Master burst into tears, saying that you still know me better as an apprentice, if your senior brothers have half of your filial piety, our mountain gate will not fall to this. I'll just say, I didn't accept your apprentice in vain back then, but that day was the Qingming Festival, the moon was dark and the wind was high, the sky was raining heavily, and the snow was falling in June......
When the master was about to talk about the past of the sesame seeds and rotten grains, I even took the book into my arms and said Master, I will go first, and when I am successful and famous, I will return to my hometown in fine clothes, and bring those dog-legged doors of the six doors to the mountain gate to kowtow to you.
In this way, I walked out of the mountains, left the Holy Gate, and set foot on the road to the capital.