The ancestor of the Huang family was a well-known wealthy family in Botou County, Cangzhou, Hebei Province. My grandfather worshiped under the Bagua boxer Dong Haichuan Dong Lao Boxing, and the gossip boxing was like a bull's roar, and it was rare to meet opponents in Cangzhou Mansion. Because of his good kung fu, his grandfather was hired by the master of Botou County as the head catcher of the third class. Later, he simply married his daughter to his grandfather and became his grandfather's father-in-law. I didn't know what I should call my grandmother's father, so I asked my father later. He pondered for a long time and told me that he didn't know.

My grandfather's name is Huang Yaozu, which means Guangzong Yaozu. There are three grandparents, brothers and sisters, two aunts and grandmothers, the eldest grandfather is six years old, and the younger aunt and grandmother are eight years old.

Grandpa worshiped under Song Baoshan, a famous martial arts master in Cangzhou, since he was a child. My grandfather's master is not an ordinary person, and he was a well-known name in the late Qing Dynasty.

Song Baoshan's ancestral home is Weibalitai, Tianjin, if you inquire now, maybe the elderly may still know. Since childhood, he entered the Shaolin Temple as a lay disciple, and later broke the eighteen bronze people to go down the mountain to roam the rivers and lakes. The height and arm length are infinite, and he can lift a unicycle with one hand to walk around the school field, and he will not change his face without growing his breath. A unique money dart in one hand, a copper coin the size of a steel jump is superb, and within a hundred and ten steps, it is said that hitting your eyes and not your eyebrows is more powerful than a pistol. The most powerful thing is that his thirteen Taibao practiced kung fu horizontally, slashing a white line gun and piercing a red dot. Because he shaved his bald head all the year round, he looked like a monk, and the people on the rivers and lakes gave him the nickname "Song Jingang".

Cangzhou is the end of the canal and has a lot of dart games. Song Baoshan came to Cangzhou to be a dart master, because he often dealt with his grandfather and liked his grandfather very much, so he accepted his grandfather as an apprentice. In the year of Gengzi, there will be a Boxer Rebellion in Hebei and Shandong. Song Baoshan also followed Fuqing to Beijing. Later, Cixi Lafayette exterminated the Boxers. Song Baoshan switched to the green forest. made a big deal in Cangzhou. robbed 500,000 taels of customs tariff silver that Nanzhili had shipped to Beijing.

This business was too big, and the government and the opposition were shaken, and they sent a sea fishing document to arrest Song Baoshan.

Song Baoshan also knew that the case was too big, so he shared the dirty silver with his accomplices overnight and hid. After two years, I thought the limelight was over, and I went back to my hometown in Tianjin to grave my mother. Unexpectedly, as soon as Tianjin Wei returned, he was targeted by the thieves, and used more than 500 officers and soldiers to surround the inn like an iron bucket, and invited several civilian masters to help him, so that Song Jingang was taken down.

Cixi Lafayette, who was in the palace, heard that the thief who robbed the official silver had taken it, so he wanted to see what this bold man looked like. Chief Manager Li hurriedly ordered the guards in front of the palace to bring Song Baoshan out of the prison. Let Galeries Lafayette take a look.

But think about it, what kind of treatment you can get if you go to death row. The jailer who guarded knew that he was good at kung fu, not only picked the two big tendons in his heel, but also discounted the pipa bone. The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Song Baoshan, who was covered in dirt and mud, and said lukewarmly: "It turns out that he is such a person, usually tight." ”

Within a few days, Song Baoshan was sentenced to be beheaded, and was beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market. The head hung on the tower of Zhengyangmen City for two months.

When my grandfather was thirteen years old, the Qing Dynasty officially came to an end. Cangzhou also caused a stir up in the legendary revolutionary party, because grandpa Tai suppressed the revolutionary party and cut off the head of the revolutionary party in public. Coincidentally, the new county magistrate was the younger brother of the beheaded revolutionary party. Therefore, as soon as the revolutionary army arrived in Botou County, they arrested the grandfather, and within a few days, they were dragged to the base of the city wall and executed. The head was cut off and put in a cage and hung at the head of the city.

When my grandmother heard the news, she fainted. After lying in bed for a few days, he also gave up.

Although grandpa is young, he has practiced childish skills since he was a child. Taking advantage of the dark and windy night of the month, he used the scorpion to climb the wall upside down and climbed to the top of the city to steal back the grandfather's head. Thinking of his father's different head, his grandfather's heart was full of blood and blood after handing over his grandfather's head to the clansmen. He sneaked into the house of the county magistrate of the revolutionary party overnight, killed the thirteen members of the county magistrate's family in one go, cut off all the heads, strung the thirteen heads with ropes, and placed a long string in front of the grave of the grandfather to sacrifice to the grandfather. Thinking about it, I was still angry, and I actually killed several guards of the arsenal with money darts, and burned the arsenal with one fire.

This case is really too big, and my hometown can't stay anymore. Grandpa packed up some soft and picked up a burden, and took the aunt and grandmother who were not yet seven years old to marry the aunt and grandmother outside the gate.

At that time, the soldiers were in chaos, and bandits were rampant, and they did not dare to hurry at night, and they walked for more than half a month before leaving Shanhaiguan.

When it was dark every day, my grandfather led my aunt and grandmother to a town called Hujiayingzi. Further on is Jinzhou City, where Grandpa wanted to spend the night.

In those years, there was a shortage of soldiers, horses, horses, bandits, and a small population outside the border. It was just getting dark, but the town was already dead. Every house is closed, and even the lights are very scarce, only the occasional dog barking in the distance gives a little smoke and fireworks. There are not a few pedestrians on the street. Grandpa knocked on the doors of several houses one after another, and some people in them agreed. But as soon as he heard that it was a foreigner passing by for the night, he immediately replied that there was an inn in the town. If you ask again, you won't be silent.

"Little brother wants to stay in the hotel." A white-faced man asked enthusiastically in a Hebei accent.

"Ah, stay in the hotel." Grandpa had never been out of such a far door before he was thirteen years old, and he had no experience in the rivers and lakes.

"This little brother, I run an inn. My shop is outside the town, and the corner is too remote, so I come to this avenue every day to solicit customers. Why don't you take a few more steps, just stay there. You can rest assured that the price of the house will be much cheaper than that in the town, and the house will be clean. The white-faced man bent down slightly and explained to his grandfather enthusiastically.

Grandpa didn't care about saving a few bucks, but he looked at the white-faced man with a respectful attitude. The clothes he was wearing were patched with a lot of patches, thinking that it was really difficult for the family to open an inn to supplement the family, so he agreed to the white-faced man as soon as his heart softened.

The white-faced man took the initiative to help carry the burden, chatting with his grandfather and praising his aunt and grandmother from time to time, which seemed very attentive.

This white-faced man's name is Zhang Si, and the corner he said is really biased. This old store of the Zhang family is more than a mile away from the town. Next to the store is the Daling River.

"Fourth Brother Zhang, why don't I squeak when I ask the people in the town?" Grandpa asked curiously.

"Hey, it's not for the kidnappers to make trouble. In the early autumn of last year, bandits disguised themselves as merchants and went to Wang Yuanwai's house to spend the night. As a result, Wang Yuanwai's only son was kidnapped in the middle of the night, and the ransom was given or the ticket was torn up, and Wang Yuanwai lay on the bed without coming up, and it didn't last for half a month. The relatives of the family have fought a lawsuit for land and property, and now there is no result, and a good family has been defeated. Zhang Si sighed.

"How did you open this store so far?"

"It's cheap, my home was in Guanli in the early years. In recent years, the Boxer Rebellion, the revolutionary party, and natural disasters have made it really impossible to survive. My little girl is the size of this girl, and she starved to death. fled to here, and with a few dollars, he bought these houses here and opened an inn to make ends meet. ”

As he spoke, he had already walked to the door of the store, and Zhang Sichong shouted inside: "The old woman is here, come out quickly." There was a sound inside, and the door opened in a few moments. The door was opened by a twenty-five or six-year-old daughter-in-law.

"This is my daughter-in-law." Zhang Si introduced.

The room is a little dilapidated but very clean, the bedding on the kang is washed and some white and stacked very neatly, it can be seen that Sister-in-law Zhang is very diligent.

That year, I relied on two legs to hurry, and after eating, my grandfather slept with my aunt and grandmother.

Grandpa has been martial arts since he was a child, and his ancestors passed on the Bagua boxing method to the inner family, and Master Song Baoshan passed on the hard skills of the outer door. It is really to practice the muscles and bones in one breath and the muscles and bones outside, and meditating cross-legged is a daily lesson. Even if you are in a hurry, you can't pull it down.

Grandpa had just meditated cross-legged for a while, just as he was about to settle down. It felt like someone was kicking him in the back of the head.

Grandpa thought it was his aunt and grandmother playing with him, so he reprimanded: "Don't make trouble, it's not fun to make trouble." ”

The aunt pointed aggrievedly at the beam of the house and said, "I didn't make trouble with you, it was the person on the beam who kicked you." ”

Grandpa was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly looked up at the beams of the house, where it was empty and there was nothing.

Suddenly, my aunt and grandmother screamed, and she was shaking with her head covered.

Grandpa hurriedly coaxed his aunt and grandmother, and Zhang Si and Sister-in-law Zhang also rushed over when they heard the sound. asked my aunt what was wrong, and it turned out that my aunt and grandmother pointed to the person on the beam. The man turned his face, and the man's face was pale and miserable, with a blood-red tongue and a rope around his neck.

Grandpa turned his head to look at Brother Zhang, and Sister-in-law Zhang asked what was going on. According to Sekiri, the child's eyes are open before the age of seven, and he can see some things that are not clean. The aunt and grandmother obviously saw the hanged ghost.

Zhang Si and Sister-in-law Zhang glanced at each other, and finally Zhang Si sighed and told the truth.

"Big brother, I can't help you. Let's be honest, it's only been a month since we bought this house. In the past, the family was all killed, and the whole family hanged themselves all night. ”

"What's going on? If you don't tell me the truth, see how I clean you up. Grandpa snapped.

Zhang Si is honest, and he knows that he is wrong, so he told it as it was.

The original owner of this house and the yard also fled from Guanli. Life is not rich, but it can be regarded as passable. Last winter, the man of the family went into the mountains to hunt. I happened to dig out a nest of yellow skins (weasels), and people outside the customs all believed that the wild immortals believed most in the five things that were yellow, fox, white, willow, and long.

The people in the town persuaded the man to let go of this nest of yellow skins, but the family from Guanli didn't believe it. Coveting the yellow skin to sell for money, I found a wooden board. The limbs and tail of the yellow skin are nailed to the board, and then the skin is peeled alive. It is said that the fur that is picked up in this way can be sold for a good price if it is bright in color. (To be continued.) )