You Fang really deliberately amused the old man, he has read a lot of martial arts novels, because Wu Lao likes to read them, and his family has a cabinet of martial arts books in the past dynasties, but You Fang is an old Jianghu after all, and he knows the situation in reality. Although I haven't seen some things before, I can understand them when I hear them, and they are not what is described in many martial arts novels.

For example, the "Songhe Valley Xiangjia" mentioned by Liu Li is nothing more than a family that is proficient in the secret art of feng shui, especially good at feng shui formations, and has been inherited for a long time, so it has created a name. And if you want to brag about it, can't you also call yourself a person who is a "White Horse Post Tourist"?

Although his father You Zuming is still the number one person, his grandmother Mo Sigu, his father You Zuming, and the pair of sisters and brothers Cheng Yuan and Cheng Fang are not good stubbles to be messed with, but the "White Horse Post Youjia" is not prosperous, and the brand name is not loud, strictly speaking, there is no faction of its own. The You family got the inheritance of the Jianghu Book from Mo Sigu, which is actually a branch of the original eight gates of the Mo family, including the foundation laid by You Fang since childhood, which was originally learned in the Mo family.

And the original eight gates of the Mo family are their own factions, and I have never heard of any heads, but the old lady Mo, who is over ninety, was the patriarch before liberation, and is proficient in all the methods and real kung fu of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, and there is also a secret method inheritance, and he is also supervising the rules of the rivers and lakes that each door acts. It is not impossible to say that the status of the old lady is equivalent to the "head" or "sect master" of the Mo family.

Ordinary families may not have this kind of exquisiteness, but as long as there is wealth belonging to a family or a certain group that has been inherited from generation to generation, there must be a role similar to that of the "head". Contemporary conglomerates or family businesses still have to elect the chairman of the board of directors, and the reason is the same, but the name is different. And the Jianghu kung fu or feng shui secret is also a special inheritance wealth, which can't even be bought with money, and the scale and influence of this group are greater, and the so-called sect has been formed.

The original eight gates of the Mo family also have inheritance tokens, which are a long whip with symbolic meaning, which is handed over by the previous patriarch to the next patriarch and has a secret method passed down at the same time. If Mrs. Mo loses the long whip and is picked up and sent back, the Mo family will definitely express their gratitude, but if this person holds the long whip and wants to be the head of the Mo family, it will be strange if he is not beaten with a full head!

Liu Li was amused by You Fang, and continued to explain with the jade card: "The inheritance of the Xunluan faction is still there, but now the heirs are not in agreement with each other, and there is no one who can suppress the head of the array. …… After all, this jade plaque is a symbol of inheritance, and it is obtained by people with status in the Xunluan faction, and it has a very great effect. If someone with an identity in the rivers and lakes finds it, it will be more important to return it to whom, and there can be a lot of benefits in private. ”

You Fang blinked his eyes and deliberately asked, "I also have a lot of benefits if I use it to find the people of the Xunluan Sect?" ”

Liu Li pouted: "You can't do it, at least these two brushes are not good now!" If you send it back publicly, you can't openly knock on the bamboo pole of a sect, right? It's just a thank-you, and you have to make up a story to explain its origin, someone will definitely investigate you in secret, after all, Lu Wenxing's whereabouts are unknown. …… If you give it to someone privately and want to extort a favor, you have to be eligible to bargain. If you meet a polite person, give two small money and send it away, if you encounter a sinister person, you can directly snatch it away openly and secretly, what can you do? …… And Songhegu Xiangjia is different, people have the capital to negotiate the price, and they can make up a reasonable origin for the jade plate, and it is not easy for others to pursue it. ”

You Fang nodded: "The rivers and lakes are sinister, the bamboo pole is not so easy to knock, even if you do good deeds, you have to be careful!" …… Hu Xuyuan wants to grab this jade card, is it greedy for the benefits of the Xunluan faction?

Liu Li shook his head: "If Hu Xuyuan is as petty as you, it makes sense to have this kind of idea." But as a sect master, Mr. Zuo Hu must have a different idea, he may try to indirectly control the entire Xunluan Sect, and the benefits are everything. ”

You Fang echoed: "The capital is different, and the business you can do is different, which is the difference between me and Hu Xuyuan; Different statuses, different visions, and of course different things are thinking, which is the gap between me and Xiang Zuohu. ”

Liu Li smiled again and said: "It's good to know yourself, don't think that it's great to know it twice, half a bottle of vinegar is shaking!" …… But this jade plaque is still exquisite, the average person is not clear, Xiang Zuohu may know some, it is not an ordinary utensil, but a piece of jade, which records the feng shui secret of the Xunluan faction since ancient times - the heart of the mountain. ”

You Fang was really surprised this time, took the jade plate from Liu Li's hand and studied it for a long time, it was neither hollow nor micro-carved on it, and the spiritual sense induction was fruitless, and he asked puzzledly: "Find the trick?" I saw it when I was a kid, and I can memorize it! Isn't that the true scripture, and there is another secret method passed down from generation to generation, hidden in this piece of jade? Where, where? ”

Liu Li asked rhetorically: "Which one are you reciting?" ”

You Fang: "Of course, it is "Searching for the Mountain" written by Lai Buyi in the Song Dynasty. ”

Liu Li: "You can't make a mistake in reciting it, it's the trick of finding the mountain that has been passed down since ancient times, of course, it doesn't need to be written in the jade plate." The so-called mental method left in the jade proverb is not a secret text, but a kind of insight and spiritual guidance to help future generations understand the true meaning......"

What does it mean to see and perceive the spirit? Some things are difficult to talk about clearly, such as the Feng Shui Formation, and no matter how much You Fang learned in Feng Shui when he was a child, it is not really useful. But after mastering the spiritual sense, Liu Liyu went around the eight places, and personally felt the operation and echo of the earth qi spirit center, which faintly constituted a giant ** array where heaven and man were combined, and he had an intuitive understanding and personal cognition of the feng shui formation.

From this point of view, the Eight Great Places are a kind of insight and spiritual guidance. And a real master can condense this kind of perception that cannot be described by words and can only be understood and indescribable on special utensils through divine consciousness, so that it is convenient for later people to understand. The so-called spiritual surname of the artifact lies in the spiritual resonance it can produce with people, which You Fang has a personal feeling when practicing swords.

The so-called Ling surname is often a very selfish feeling, for example, if you change someone to use that sword, you may not "see" a woman named Qin Yu, which is only the "heart image" given to it by You Fang's own special chance. However, "seeing and knowing the spirit" is another realm, no matter who comes later, as long as the kung fu reaches the point, you can feel the message left by the predecessors on the utensils.

With such an explanation, You Fang understood, and played with the jade card and said: "It seems that my kung fu is not enough, and after I turn my spiritual consciousness into divine consciousness, I can do it, right?" ”

Liu Li smiled slightly: "That's far away, at least you have to have Mr. Zuohu's ability." ”

You Fang was a little deflated, rolled his eyes, handed over the jade plate and said, "Your old man must have this ability, why don't you see what the insight and knowledge spirit in the jade card is?" ”

"I'll just give it a try, I haven't seen anything like this in years." Liu Li took the jade plaque with a smile on his face, held it in the palm of his hand and closed his eyes slightly, looking unfathomable, and You Fang also stared at the strangeness with wide eyes. However, only a moment later, Liu Li's face suddenly changed, he opened his eyes and scolded: "Little wanderer, why did you cook it!" ”

You Fang was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "This jade plaque has also been sealed by Yin Qi for many years, although the jade is fine, the surface hardness will be slightly softer, and it will take a long time to recover." I used the method of 'attacking water and fire together' in the rivers and lakes to speed up the tempering and return to the yang, and put it on the fire and boiled it in water for a few days. ”

Liu Li sighed: "Jade is not afraid of sealing, so it is suitable for refining proverbs, and it is enough to slowly return to the yang, why do you bother to do this?" I'm not afraid that laymen don't dare to move, but I'm afraid that insiders who only know half of it will move! The insight and knowledge spirit in this piece of jade has been erased by you, but it is a pity that the previous ancestors of the Xunluan Sect have condensed their efforts. ”

You Fang was stunned and said, "I didn't mean to, so what should I do?" ”

Liu Li glanced at him meaningfully: "Actually, it's nothing, "Finding the Mountain" is still circulating, and what the past generations of earth masters have learned, of course, includes the methods of geography and feng shui of various schools. When you have the achievement of the Earth Qi Grandmaster in the future, you will be able to remedy it by knowing your perception of the mountain search and condensing it in the jade plate with your divine sense? ”

You Fang asked, "It's difficult, isn't it?" What do you have to go? ”

Liu Li flipped the jade card: "If it is a book, it is not easy to read, let alone write it?" It's too early to talk about feng shui and qi kung fu, and it's hard for me to answer. You know the inner boxing method, you can make an analogy, at least there must be a realm equivalent to 'the form and the god are wonderful, and the Tao is true'. …… You have to remember, this time I don't owe me a favor, but I owe a favor to the predecessors of the feng shui hero Lai Buyi thousands of years ago. ”

You Fang was very annoyed, what he learned in his family heirloom was to identify and repair artifacts, and he was proud of it, but today he ruined a rare and rare artifact by his own cleverness, and that kind of frustration is not something that others can understand. Although unwilling but helpless, who calls himself not good at learning? After thinking about it, he asked again: "What is the origin of the Xunluan faction, and what does it have to do with Lai Buyi's predecessors?"

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Lai Buyi, who is famous in the feng shui world, was formerly known as Lai Fenggang, the word Wenjun, self-named cloth clothes, and also known as the prophet mountain man. He is a native of Fengshangang, Dingnan County, Jiangxi Province, and his life is quite legendary, which is quite difficult to verify. "Yi Jianzhi" records that he was an official in Jianyang County, and he liked the art of phase and earth, so he abandoned the official and wandered the rivers and lakes. There is also a legend that he was born in the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and he was talented in high school at the age of nine, and later served as a national teacher. Due to being squeezed out by Qin Hui, he abandoned his official position and traveled and called himself Buyizi, so he was called Lai Buyi.

Lai Wenjun is the author of "Shaoxing Earth Eight Bells" and "Thirty-six Bells", and there are 15 volumes of "Geography Dacheng" in the "Tianyi Pavilion Bibliography", with Lai Wenjun's "Urging Officials" as the first volume. Only among the secret methods taught by the Jianghu Fengmen, there is also a "Finding the Mountain".

As a generation of feng shui masters, Lai Wenjun not only inherited the Kanyu theory of his predecessors, but also founded Tianxing Feng Shui. To this day, the "Celestial Star Sand Removal Method" and the "Auxiliary Star Water Method" he founded are still widely used in the feng shui world. He also founded the "human plate", that is, on the basis of the "heavenly disk" and "earth" of the compass, he added the "human disk", so that the compass has all the three talents of heaven, earth and man.

However, the real deeds of his people do not lie in feng shui, Lai Wenjun's footprints have almost traveled all over China, leaving many legends along the way, known as "feng shui heroes". In contemporary times, his story has also become the subject of many martial arts novels and film and television works.

Lai Buyi left three things for his disciples, a jade proverb as a token of inheritance, and two short swords, one male and one female, which he personally built, the male sword is called "Yinzhen", and the female sword is called "Qin Yu". As for the "Xunluan School" of the contemporary Jianghu Fengmen, it was not created by Lai Buyi himself, but the secret method of Feng Shui of "Xun Luan Jue" was formed in the circulation, and the official founder was Zhou Zhonggao, a feng shui master of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years later.

Zhou Zhonggao inherited the mantle of the descendants of the past dynasties, and had a great influence in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, forming a faction of feng shui.

Liu Li introduced the origin of the Xunluan faction to Youfang, and suddenly interjected here: "Little wanderer, the tomb you led the wild fox to steal, do you know whose tomb it is?" ”

You Fang: "I don't know, the deceived fox said that it was the tomb of Zhu Yuanzuo, the pottery supervisor of Jingdezhen in the Ming Dynasty." ”

Liu Li: "You can really talk nonsense!" If my guess is correct, it is the tomb of Li Jiru, a disciple of Zhou Xingao and the second-generation head of the Xunluan faction. Li Jiru laid the true foundation of the Xunluan faction, and did much more than his master, but only passed down the Xunluan Jade Zhen and the ancient sword Qin Yu, as for the other sword, Yinzhen is estimated to be buried as a memorial. …… Of course, the remains you found are Lu Wenxing, the head of the Xunluan faction who disappeared sixty-four years ago, he should have gone to find Yinzhen, and he also wanted to see what other treasures Master Zu had to be buried with? Even dare to steal the tomb of the grandfather, he really deserves to die there! ”

The origin of Yu Zhen and Qin Yu was clear, but You Fang asked even more curiously: "That Lu Wenxing, as the head of the Xunluan faction, how could he be so pustuated and rob a tomb and die below, even the mad fox is not as good as them." ”

Liu Li's expression was clearly sneering, and he asked rhetorically: "Didn't the crazy foxes also die below, do you really think it's a good place?" …… In fact, Lu Wenxing's skills back then were definitely above today's Xiangzuohu, but he was chased and killed by the enemy and was seriously injured at that time, so he didn't find a good place to recuperate, but was in a hurry to steal the treasure in the tomb of the ancestor in an attempt to turn it over. …… At that time, there was no such advanced equipment as it is now, and it was naturally impossible for him to let others know about his father's tomb, so he could only enter the ground alone at night, and as a result, his injuries were in an accident, and it was normal to die below. ”

You Fang asked even more puzzled: "How can you know so clearly, just like watching it with your own eyes on the side?" ”

Liu Li turned around, looked at the landscape and night of the Summer Palace outside the boat, his tone seemed to be soaked in the vicissitudes of time, and said slowly: "Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I can think of it." In the past 64 years, no one in the rivers and lakes knows about this matter except myself, and people only know that I was injured by that unfilial apprentice Feng Jing, but they don't know that he was secretly instructed by Lu Wenxing. And the enemy who chased and killed Lu Wenxing into the ground was me. ”

You Fang's question actually asked a secret past-

Liu Li was not a fuel-efficient lamp when he was young, he was born in a wealthy family, not only was he very romantic, but he also did all kinds of things on the rivers and lakes. Later, he inherited the mantle of a generation of earth masters, and in the twenty-third year of the Republic of China, he was thirty-nine years old and accepted his first disciple Zhu Yongjie.

Zhu Yong is outstanding and has a cold body, his temper is not the same as that of his master, he is kind and steady, and his surname and qualifications are very good. Liu Li is not dissatisfied except that he is too old-fashioned and not as naughty and mischievous as he was when he was a teenager. But soon after, the War of Resistance broke out, and Zhu Yongjie wanted to go to the battlefield to serve in the army to defend his home and country. Of course, Liu Li supports, all kinds of self-defense and murderous treasures are let the apprentices pick and choose, and they can't wait to bring them all.

Zhu Yongjie carried out the most dangerous reconnaissance mission on the battlefield, but he was also able to give full play to his strengths, and he made many military achievements. Of course, the apprentice can't be idle when he goes to the battlefield, Liu Li has done a lot of things secretly in the enemy-occupied area. He burned down the devil's warehouse, and also used his connections and skills to coerce and lure the leaders of the puppet army, reselling and smuggling the munitions, medicines, and other military materials in the warehouses to the nationalized areas and liberated areas, and the puppet army reported "war damage" and prevaricated in the past.

When the devils entered China, the big and small leaders certainly did not forget to loot all kinds of treasures. And Liu Li is not polite, all kinds of precious cultural relics, calligraphy, paintings, antiques, gold and silver treasures looted by the devil in China, he will steal them when he has the opportunity, and he will not forget to kill people and set fire to them after stealing. You Fang's murder and arson in the past are really small compared to the old man's back then.

It's a pity that three years later, Zhu Yongjie sacrificed his life for the country, and Liu Li lost his mantle. It was not until the 33rd year of the Republic of China, when the victory of the Anti-Japanese War was in sight, that Liu Li accepted his second disciple Feng Jing. Feng Jing is the son of a fellow Jianghu acquaintance whom Liu Li met when he was engaged in the "arms business". The fellow knew Liu Li's ability and knew that he had no heir, so he sent his son to Liu Li to learn art. Liu Li saw that Feng Jing was clever and his qualifications were good, so he accepted him as a disciple.

At that time, Liu Li lived in Yucheng and personally taught Feng Jing for a year and a half, all the things that should be taught, and what was not taught were the most profound secrets. Feng Jing then said goodbye to his master and went out to wander, and Liu Li was also happy to be idle, and went to Qingcheng Mountain to live in seclusion for a period of time.

A year later, when Liu Li returned to Yucheng, he happened to hear that Feng Jing's father had died, and his old friend naturally wanted to go to mourn and meet his apprentice by the way. However, in the Feng family, he didn't see Feng Jing come back to mourn, Liu Li felt that something was wrong, so he went to track down the whereabouts of his apprentice, and this investigation found out that there was a big problem.

Feng Jing was in Wugong Mountain, Jiangxi at the time. The area around the border between Jiangxi and Hunan was the old base of the Red Army during the civil war before the Anti-Japanese War. However, during the War of Liberation after the Anti-Japanese War, it was located in the hinterland of the national control area, and the bandits were particularly powerful. Some local tyrants gathered to do banditry, bullying men and women to extort and extort all kinds of evil, and the local [***] who maintained law and order was often just a bandit symbolizing his surname, and even often colluded with it.

Feng Jing colluded with the local leaders to privately resell arms to bandits from all walks of life, and many of the arms were even smuggled directly to the bandits from the warehouse in the name of suppressing the bandits' war losses. Not only that, Feng Jing also fought for territory between arms trading and control bandit forces, which made his business more prosperous, and even extorted money for debauchery.

Liu Li was very angry after finding out the details, his old man had also done similar business during the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Jing learned the means, but he used them in the wrong place!

(To be continued)