At this time, the Spring Festival is approaching, and the north wind is howling. Li Ling sat on the futon and pondered for a long time, felt a little cold, and was about to get up to leave, when he looked up and saw the stone statue of Buddha in front of him, he suddenly had a feeling of déjà vu.

Li Ling carefully observed that this fat Bodhisattva sitting on the ground with his chest and belly bare, smiling and holding a cloth bag in his hand, was Maitreya Buddha.

That familiar feeling was gone for a moment. Li Ling scratched his head, he had felt this way in the church of Qilu University at the beginning. It's the kind of epiphany in a glimpse, and it's also an innate acquaintance. There are some mottled memories in my mind, and I want to catch them, but there is no trace. He is a person who is at ease with what happens, and since he can't figure it out, he simply doesn't think about it.

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Three days later, all the hall masters in Chunbaoshan received the order overnight, and the dragon head uncle arrived.

The cold wind in the mountains is swishing, and the apricot yellow flag hunting is waving in the wind.

"Big-brother-arrived!" At night, with a long shout, a long fire dragon immediately lit up on the path leading to the temple, illuminating the way up the mountain.

Hearing the shouting, the people on both sides shouted, and the momentum shook the sky: "Welcome the big dragon head." ”

Chunbao Mountain is extremely powerful, and the lord of Longtou Mountain stomps his feet, and the land of Jianghuai will tremble a few times. How many heroes and heroes are controlled by it, and the heroes of the three mountains and five mountains bow down to their subordinates. In recent years, the mountain owner has not asked about the world, and it is difficult to come out once, how strong the faction is.

Seeing such a magnificent fire dragon flying in the mountains, Li Ling's eyes were hot and his mood was excited. Being able to see the honor of the mountain lord today made him excited. He is most envious of those heroes of the rivers and lakes, and now he can see the Hongmen Mountain Lord who coordinates the heroes of the world, how can he not be excited.

But seeing that the mountain lord has been in his sixtieth year, his spirit is still strong, and he takes the lead in striding and walking. Behind him, followed by the master of the seal and the sword master and the masters of each hall, there were many patrols on both sides, like a carp crossing the river to check back and forth, and there were thousands of Hongmen brothers holding flags and shouting with joy.

The lord of Chunbao Mountain looked calm and calm, and the clouds were light and breezy. He waved and nodded and smiled at everyone, in exchange for rows and rows of eager responses.

Li Ling secretly slandered himself, this is the demeanor of the superiors, and it is really extraordinary. Rao is mountain lord and everyone have been away for a long time, and he is still standing there reminiscing about the charm of the mountain lord, and he is determined to strive to reach this height.

The next day, I was notified that Hongmen Chunbaoshan opened in the "Hanguang Temple" in the evening to collect tickets for newcomers. Li Ling was in a stirring mood, and he was at the gate of the temple with Qian Xu early. However, after a while, I saw the arrival of several officers who looked like men. Li Ling knew one of the officers, who was one of the people who molested Ye Wan in the "Hongbin Building" and was later beaten by Li Ling and You Fei.

The bearded officer also saw the two of them, and his face was angry, and he was about to touch the gun from his waist. It's just that today's Hongmen ceremony, you are not allowed to carry weapons, and you feel empty, and then you are ready to say: "Little rabbit cub, the military master has been looking for you for a long time, but I didn't expect the road to be narrow, so let me meet you here." Hehe, look where you run this time. ”

Li Ling smiled bitterly, how come there are enemies everywhere, he is the kind of person who is not afraid of things, put on a posture, and said, "When did you see me running away?" I'll give you a ride if you're looking for death. ”

The eight-character Hu officer was furious, and a punch hit Li Ling's face. He scolded himself: "The little cub raised by the son of a bitch still wants to rebel and can't succeed." ”

Hearing him scold his mother, Li Ling suddenly became angry, and a whip leg quickly swept out, and the officer fell to the sky before he could hit the punch. The rest of the officers were shocked and inexplicable, but they didn't expect that their companions would be knocked to the ground in just one round, and they were ready to join the battle group.

"Stop." A loud shout came, but he saw the deputy uncle Yan Baoqi coming over with a pale face, glared at Li Ling fiercely, and said, "You are the one who caused trouble, what happened this time?" ”

Feeling that he didn't have a good impression of himself, Li Ling didn't bother to explain and was silent.

The bearded officer hurriedly got up from the ground and said, "This kid has no one in his eyes, he was embarrassed with me in the inn a few days ago, but today he bumped into me and wanted to take my life, please ask the master of the Yan hall to make the decision for me." ”

Qian Xuping on the side hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "In the 'Hongbin Building' that day, this officer wanted to flirt with the seventh sister Ye Wan, but was stopped by Li Ling and my brothers. ”

Yan Baoqi already had a prejudice against Li Ling, and his current attitude was even more unhappy, and he said coldly: "Is that the case?" ”

"That's right." didn't wait for Li Ling to answer, but when he saw Ye Wanting, the seventh sister of Hongmen, coming with a curly line, her pretty face was also tense.

It takes courage to admit this kind of thing as a woman. The people who came with Yan Baoqi couldn't help but believe it, and they also had a lot of complaints about this officer daring to tease Ye Wan, but because these officers were very important, they didn't want to argue on this matter. Yan Baoqi said to the officer: "Insulting the brothers and sisters of the Hong family should be punished by the criminal law, but you don't know it, today is your joining ceremony, but you can apologize." ”

The officer observed the words, hurriedly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, hugged his fists and said: "I offended the seventh sister a few days ago, please bear with me." Today's event, I apologized to the seventh sister for preparing thin wine. ”

Ye Wan didn't even bother to look at him, snorted and walked towards the temple by herself. Because of her special status in the mountain gate, no one blames her for not abiding by the etiquette law.

The officer smiled awkwardly, looked at Li Ling, and was about to phrase it, but he felt a pain in his chest, and it was the kick that Fang had just been kicked and forced the words of apology back into his stomach.

Li Ling and Qian Xuping were secretly resentful, how could they worship the mountain gate at the same time with this kind of person today, and lose their own value.

Yan Baoqi also snorted and walked straight away.

Hongmen initiation is called playing or releasing horses, and the ceremony is carried out in a quiet ancient temple, and the temple is called a dumb kiln, which means that the gods and Buddhas do not speak.

The hall is five zhang square, divided into three areas of the outer central inner layer, and is called the Honghua Pavilion in the name of Chen Jinnan Pavilion. The room is dedicated to the saint, and the signature is called the Zhongyi Hall. There are various shrines in the center of the hall. Such as the female military god Guan Yuying, and the first five ancestors, the latter five ancestors, and Zheng Junda, Wan Yunlong, Zheng Yulan, Guo Xiuying, Zhou Hongying, etc.

In front of the shrine, there is a Gaoxi Pagoda and a plate containing fruits, and there is a nine-word pagoda incense burner with detailed depictions. There are also red lantern official umbrella seven-star knives, depicting the sticks of dragons and phoenixes, and the wooden buckets of Muyang City.

There are countless candles in front of the case. Underneath it is the seven-star sword, and the ink disk. There are red lights to distinguish the authenticity, and there are rulers to measure the behavior of members, and to measure the unity of heaven and earth. There are scales to show justice and justice. There is a mirror to see what is good and evil in everything. There are scissors, which are said to cut through the dark clouds that cover the sky. There are peach branches, in order to imitate Liu Guan Zhang Taoyuan's righteousness. In addition, there are beads and strings of wooden fish, hold a sword to form the shape of a cage, put a bridge on it, to represent the bridge that the five ancestors escaped from the Shaolin Temple, and take the copper and iron plates for it.

Outside, there are ditches around. There are two rest rooms in front of the Red Flower Pavilion. At the head of each department, there are guards standing with swords drawn, and the guards even stand at the door with bamboo gardens. Anyone who joins the club must pass through this bamboo garden.

The initiation ceremony was held at night, the venue was prepared, and the leaders of each hall were dressed in Ming Dynasty clothes and red scarves for official membership.

Put the wooden bucket and burn incense, worship the five ancestors, every move at that time, recite the prescribed verses, and the sacrificial ceremony is finished. The eldest brother sat before God. The incense lord sits on the left, the gentleman sits on the right, the red stick straw sandals stand on both sides, the members sit in the distance, and the guards stand by the door with swords. The steward leads the inductees to the rest room.

Li Ling found that there were about a dozen people waiting for newcomers to enter the mountain, and it was not that You Fei said that there must be at least fifty people at a time to open the incense hall.

In fact, he didn't know that the opening of the incense hall in Chunbao Mountain was extraordinary, and the members who entered were all elites from a hundred, and several soldiers had a great relationship with the mountain hall.

The entrance door is so narrow that people must creep in, and when they reach the door, the guards ask and answer the members:

The guard asked: Why are you here?

Li Ling and the others had already memorized the incision, and replied: I want to be listed in the military and be the brothers of the Hong family, so I came here.

The guard asked: How do you know that you can be a soldier here?

Everyone replied in unison: Because I saw that there was a convening to demonstrate.

The guard asked: Who taught you to come?

A: Come voluntarily.

Guard: Where did you come from?

The inductee replied: From the East.

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Entering the hall, because it was presided over by the mountain lord himself, and as the incense chief, he asked with a serious face: Who are you?

Everyone answered: I Gaoxi God bless Hong also.

The lord of the mountain asked: Don't be careful, people without a surname of heaven, where were you born?

Everyone answers: I take the sky as my father, the earth as my mother, the sun as my brother, the moon as my sister, the sky as the blessing of the Hong, the sun and the moon as the light, so I name myself the heavens bless the Hong, and the heavens will protect the Hong.

The mountain lord asked: What is the surname of heaven, earth, sun and moon?

Everyone answers: The sky is prosperous, the earth is prosperous, the sun is the sun, and the moon is the Tang.

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The lord of the mountain said: "I should share the good and the bad, in order to restore the wisdom of heaven and earth, and exterminate Hu Lu to wait for the true life, and I should worship the spirit of the emperor of heaven and the earth, the spirit of the mountains, rivers and valleys, the spirit of the six and six, the spirit of the five directions and the five dragons, and the boundless gods." Since its creation, Pepsi has advocated that all those who were known by the ancients and are sufficient to teach future generations should be passed on. Please brother, now guide you in loyalty, and I should swear to heaven with the same life and death.

Tonight, we each introduced a number of new believers to Hongmen, learn the story of Taoyuan's righteousness, about brothers, Hong Qi's surname, Jin Qi's name, and become a family, since entering Hongmen, when one heart and one virtue support each other, there is no difference between the other and me, tonight worship the sky as the father and the earth as the mother, the day as the brother, the month as the sister, worship the five ancestors and Wanyun Long, etc., and the whole god of the Hong family.

Tonight, when we knelt down in front of the hearth, our hearts were immediately purified, and we sipped blood with our fingers, and made an oath to live and die. I take the ugly time of July 25 of the year of Jiayin as the birth day, and vow to restore the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and everyone with one heart and one virtue seeks more blessings for themselves, and each has his own labor, and there is no alienation.

All new members should carry out their tasks according to their scope and follow the path of heaven. Those who follow the heavens survive, and those who go against the heavens die. If there is a person who is angry and strives to be strong, and builds the rule of peace in the world, and is a prince, his descendants will be eternal for generations. Those who violate the Tao should be exterminated under the sword halberd. and their species must be destroyed, but the faithful and righteous shall receive everlasting blessings. We were born in heaven and earth, illuminated by the sun and the moon, and after the righteousness was made, we swore an oath of blood, and looked up to the gods. ”

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Everyone followed the example of the mountain lord, holding a yellow scroll in their hands, and reciting the thirty-six oaths in a special way of kneeling.

After the recitation, they all stood up together, led the newcomers to the shrine, and burned incense. The fifth red flag took a rooster and cut off his head. The owner of the mountain holds chicken blood in a bowl, and the second finger of the new member's left hand with a nail to drip the blood into the bowl. He burned the yellow scroll of the thirty-six oaths, mixed the ashes into a bowl, and slurped them with an oath.

After that, the new members greeted each other, and the owner of the mountain distributed them to everyone in red paper and money, and the new members were included in the membership fee of one yuan.

The lord of the mountain told everyone the secret symbols printed with the red cloth ticket and the names of the various public halls, and after registering the book, he was given 21 rules and 10 prohibitions and 10 punishments. Let each of them comply.

Li Ling stayed up all night in cumbersome etiquette and curiosity, but he was also excited, and from now on he joined Hongmen, and he could be regarded as a person with a backstage