"The structure of ancient Chinese society was characterized by patriarchy. The patriarchal system developed from blood relations and ancestor worship under the clan system. …… After the Qin Dynasty, the patriarchal system underwent some changes, and it was no longer directly formed as the political system and political system of the state like Yin Zhou, but some basic principles of the patriarchal system were almost completely preserved...... From the inheritance of the eldest son of the imperial family, the establishment of vassals and states, down to the ancestral hall genealogy of the people, the family rules and family laws, as well as the extremely detailed and complicated titles of the Chinese, the Chinese's emphasis on affection and light law, and even today's so-called 'relationship network', etc., all of them are the influence and legacy of patriarchal law. …… As a martial arts in Chinese society, as a martial art born in this historical background, it is inevitable that it is deeply marked by the patriarchy, and it can also be said that without the social background of the patriarchy, there would be no practical significance and current appearance of Chinese martial arts."

The above passage is a classic commentary from the book "Chinese Martial Arts: History and Culture" written by Mr. Cheng Dali in 1995.

The reason why it is written here is to explain that the reason why the side branches of the Xingyi Gate, who have been in Hong Kong for more than 60 years, want to return to the mainland and look for the big tree of the Xingyi Gate is not because they can't get mixed up, but precisely because they want to find a traditional patriarchal concept that goes deep into the hearts of Chinese people and goes deep into the bones, blood, and bone marrow, and this also shows that Yu Lao is a traditional responsible Xingyi Gate person.

This is the same as the desire of the older generation to return to the motherland no matter how far away they are from the South Seas and the American continent, and even that desire has become a sense of mission and existence, but it is a pity that today's generation of young people, even the generation that has just gone abroad, does not understand these at all, and yearns for a Western-style life, who does not know that this is the root of the Chinese nation, and it is because of the root of this patriarchal system that the Chinese nation has been inherited and connected after more than 3,000 years of social changes. Looking at other ancient civilizations, they have long since disappeared in the long river of history.

The nine brothers of Wang Chao drove six cars to the waiting apron, and Wang Chao's knight opened the way, and the seventh Ouyang was sitting in the car; The second is the eldest Mercedes-Benz business car, in which the second and fourth are seated, and they are the main force to pick up people; The other brothers and sisters have one by one, among which the eighth is behind the car hall, this order is arranged by Master Li Huanfeng, Wang Chao didn't ask in detail, it is estimated that there is a certain deep meaning in it.

It was about 11 a.m. When the flight from Hong Kong landed, the nine brothers stood in front of the car and waited quietly, and the passengers on the plane began to come down one after another.

Yu Lao and his party of seven people walked at the end, Wang Chao saw that in addition to Yu Lao taking the lead, there were two granddaughters left, Yu Xinyue, Yu Xinran, and four other apprentices, it can be seen that Yu Lao really made the greatest determination for this trip to the mainland, and brought all the relatives in the door around him.

"Uncle Shi. Welcome home," Wang Chao took the lead to greet him, and the other eight senior brothers followed suit.

"Wang Chao, let's meet again, why are you doing such a grand ceremony. These are..."

"Senior uncle, this is my eight senior brothers, this is my senior brother Yuan Tianlei, this is my second senior brother..." When several senior brothers saw this old man with white hair but still in good spirits, they were very respectful and hurriedly came up to bow and salute.

After the introduction of the eight senior brothers. Wang Chao introduced several of Yu Lao's apprentices and two granddaughters, and then the senior brother and Wang Chao accompanied Yu Shibo and the two granddaughters on the Mercedes-Benz business car, and the other four apprentices got into the cars of the other senior brothers, and then a group of six cars left the airport and went straight to Heqi Lake.

I have to say that the fourth senior brother thought thoughtfully, worried about traffic jams on the road, so he used his influence in the armed police to plan the driving route in advance, and there were traffic police commanders at every intersection.

Even so, due to the long distance, it is a little closer to Heqi Lake.

As soon as I arrived at the Heqi Lake Scenic Area, I saw that there were apprentices and disciples wearing placket practice clothes at every intersection to maintain order there, all the way to Li Huanfeng's villa.

Yu Lao nodded secretly when he saw it, thinking that the brothers and sisters in the inner terrain sect have developed well over the years, and they already have a certain status and influence in society, and looking at these apprentices and grandchildren, there are people from all walks of life, and they have become a big sect.

At the door of the villa, there are four old men standing, except for Li Huanfeng, the other four uncles have already greeted at the door, the same Tang costume, the color is different, the embroidered on it are spring, summer, autumn and winter, each of them has a season, although the height is different, fat and thin, but the same spirit, the same sharp eyes.

The convoy was parked, and someone immediately came over to open the door of the Mercedes-Benz, the senior brother, the second senior brother and the fourth senior brother walked down first, and once again walked out of the two girls who were more beautiful than flowers, and finally Yu Lao walked out, and the senior brother hurriedly stepped forward to introduce, "Four senior uncles, this is Uncle Yu from Hong Kong." Uncle Yu, this is my four uncles, they are ......"

The five old men stared at each other tightly when they met, and then took each other's hands together, "Senior brother, hello", and then walked into the villa hand in hand, at the gate of the second courtyard, Li Huanfeng stood there, staring at Yu Lao who came over with a solemn expression, shouting tears in his eyes, and his lips trembled,

"Participate in the head of the junior brother" said Yu Lao let go of the hands of several junior disciples, flicked off his clothes lightly, and then bent his legs and knelt down.

For a moment, Li Lao didn't move, his eyes were fixed on Yu Lao.

"Brother Yu, Senior Brother Yu, let's finally meet" After speaking, he walked over, holding Yu Lao's arm tightly, this time the tears could no longer be held back, sliding over the old face that had experienced vicissitudes.

The reason why Yu Lao knelt and why Li Lao was not polite was this is exquisite.

Yu Lao kneeling is not Li Huanfeng, but kneeling Xingyi Gate, kneeling is the ancestor in the door, just like the apprentice bowing ceremony, now although martial arts have declined, but the real apprenticeship and apprenticeship, this rule can not be broken, you must kneel when you should kneel.

The reason why Li Huanfeng didn't pick up at the beginning was mainly based on his identity as the head of the house, and this is why Li Lao didn't go to the gate to greet him, it stands to reason that he can't even come out to pick up the second door, but although Yu Lao is older than him and is a senior brother, he still waits at the second gate.

In addition, for the first time in so many years, the disciples of the Hong Kong Xingyi Sect returned to the mainland, no matter what the reason for leaving was, after all, they hadn't seen each other for so many years. So Li Lao arrived at the second gate.

The two brothers hugged their heads and cried, and then several junior brothers persuaded them to come to the main hall and sit down, and the two old men never let go of their hands.

"Senior brother, you were only 11 years old when you left the mainland, and I was 8 years old at the time, but I didn't expect that this time has passed, the years are unforgiving, you and I have changed from a drooping teenager to a full head of gray hair now, and it is like yesterday in a trance."

"Yes, junior brother, I remember when I left, you held my hand tightly and didn't let go. In the end, we agreed to meet again in five years, but who knew that this parting would be more than 60 years."

The two old men chattered about the year, and others, including the four uncles, all stopped listening quietly, looking at the two old men who were the oldest, the highest, and the oldest in the contemporary Xingyi Sect, and there was no identity and status at the moment, just two old men in the world chatting.

chatting and chatting, suddenly the two old men sang softly,

"In the past 40 years, the country has been 3,000 miles of mountains and rivers. Fengge Longlou Lianxiao Han, Yushu Qiongzhi as smoke, when to stop fighting; Once reduced to Hulu, Shen waist and pan sideburns are consumed. The most is the day of the hasty resignation of the temple, the teaching workshop especially played the parting song, and wept to Gong'e"... The tone is low, and the lyrics are quaint. Sadness.

Just now, everyone was still remembering this ancient tune, and suddenly the style of the song changed

"Take a long car and step through the lack of Helan Mountain. Fierce and fierce, thirty fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons, don't wait for idleness, white young man's head, empty and sad"

The lyrics and music are from pathos to grief and indignation, and the transition is so smooth, as if the two elders had done rehearsals.

After singing, Li Lao took Yu Lao's hand and said to everyone, "These two songs were widely circulated before liberation, and the two of us liked to listen to them when we were children, so we have never forgotten them." ”

After a long time, the two old men stopped, put on the banquet and drank heartily, but there were only six old men on the table, and the others were entertained in the side room.

The banquet lasted until the evening, and then the new dishes were replaced and the conversation continued.

stayed in Li Huanfeng's villa at night, and the two old men talked with candles until late at night.

The next day, I took Yu Lao to worship the ancestors in the Xingyi Gate, and then a few old men walked out of the villa and came to the side of Heqi Lake, I don't know what they talked about.

On the fourth day, Li Lao called Wang Chao's senior brothers, "You are going to go back tomorrow, and then invite Uncle Shi's ashes back before the Qingming Festival, you prepare in advance, and clean up the cemetery well. ”

"Yes, Master"

On this day, Yu Lao and Li Lao instructed these apprentices, Hong Kong Xingyi left the mainland for 60 years, combined with the characteristics of Muay Thai, Hong Kong White Crane Gate, Mantis Gate, Yongchun and other southern boxing, there have been some new changes in the moves, and these apprentices have made unreserved exchanges with each other.

Soon it was the fifth day, and it was still a few senior brothers who drove Yu Lao and his party away, but this time Xinyue and Xinran didn't leave, and stayed for the time being, saying that they would let Xinyu accompany them around, and Yu Lao agreed.

Sent away Yu Shibo, a few brothers to find a restaurant to have a meal, this is the first time for nine people to eat, everyone is very happy, with the return of Hong Kong Shimen, their own prestige in the door has grown, although the competition between the portals in this era has been very light, but it still exists, this is Xingyi, gossip and Taiji, the three since the Qing Dynasty left a "good story", when Guo Yunshen, Dong Haichuan, Yang Luchan three people in Yanjing City and became the "three masters" for a while became a beautiful talk in the sect, But what everyone doesn't know is that these three secretly competed with each other, and it was passed on to future disciples and grandchildren.

Now the people in Xingyi Gate are thriving, and the return of the Hong Kong branch has made the reputation of the door greater, which is worth celebrating.

The next day, Wang Chao was just about to go to the company in the morning, and received a call from the railway freight department that the wagons from the Meijiang River had arrived, and asked him to pick up the goods within three days, otherwise he would have to pay a late fee.

Wang Chao was not only overjoyed, but then called Zhao Dahai and Brother Zhao and asked him to find a few big trucks, well, at least 5 cars to pull 20 tons, or if there are not so many, you can run two more times. Find another forklift, Brother Zhao nodded in agreement.

In the afternoon, I went to the freight yard of the railway station and unloaded all the wool stones in the three wagons, but when I met the tall stones of that person, he was a little hairy, this guy weighed more than ten tons, and borrowed the crane of the railway department to load him onto the big truck.

Then a group of five cars went straight to the courtyard of Heqi Lake.

When he returned to Duzhou after unloading, it was already dark, Wang Chao invited the drivers to a meal, and then gave each of them a thousand yuan to express his gratitude.

After eating, they were sent away, and it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, Wang Chao went home to wash up, and then lay on the bed and fell asleep.

slept until the next morning, got up and ate a mouthful of food, and then called Boss Mao in Meijiang, telling him that the wagon had arrived, and asked him to send the account to transfer the balance to him.

Then I called the organizers of the gambling stone conference and transferred the money to them.

As soon as I finished the transfer, suddenly the phone rang, and when I picked it up, I saw that it was Chen Jingxuan's phone.

"Lao Chen, what's the matter?"

"Mr. Wang, if you don't come to the construction site to take a look here, you found something."

After asking the place clearly, Wang Chao drove over directly.

It turned out that after the New Year, Lao Chen summoned the workers of the ancient building to start work. Although the weather is cold, try to decorate the things in the room first, including the floor, wall skin, roof, etc., and then the indoor work such as the carving and adjustment of the window edge and woodware, and then do outdoor repairs when the weather is warm.

When he was repairing the room, he suddenly found a basement in a corner next to the bedroom of the main house in the courtyard, but Lao Chen didn't let the workers open it, and then called Wang Chao and wanted him to come over and have a look.

The courtyard is in an alley in Dongcheng District, the whole alley here is well protected, and it used to be a house of Prince Yi, so that the previous residents have not repaired it after moving away, and now the roof of some wings here has leaked, and some doors and windows are gone, this repair is mainly to add some modern things, such as running water, wires and repairs to doors and windows, try to restore its original appearance, the landlord is ready to open a club here, it is said that it is a European and American alumni association and the like, so as to contact each other and "make progress together", As soon as the renovation began, this basement was discovered. (To be continued......)