"Three, six, five, eight techniques, the tomb of the emperor in the Jinjiamen.

Liuzi Road, Xizi Road, Orchid Thousand Hands Gu Gate Crossing.

Red handkerchiefs, life-seeking ghosts, yin and yang relatives crying. ”

This is a limerick poem left by the older generation in the way of word of mouth, and I think most people, like me, did not quite understand what it meant when they first heard it.

But after that incident, I suddenly understood what it meant, it was telling people this story, a legend, even a ......

A Jianghu ......

A Jianghu about the lower eight gates......

Lower Eight Gates?

What is the Lower Eight Gates?

As the saying goes, the upper eight doors are officials, and the flat eight doors are businessmen, and the lower eight doors are naturally thieves.

As the name suggests, the Lower Eight Gates are made up of eight professions.

The people on the rivers and lakes call them "gold, skin, hanging, stepping, flat, strip, hanging, and willow".

Translated into words that you can understand, it is, "Thief Gate, Gu Gate, Mechanism Gate, Phoenix Gate, Thousand Doors, Witch Gate, Red Handkerchief, and Soul Gate", a total of eight gates.

As for the story I'm going to tell you, I'm going to start with these eight doors.

…… ……

Autumn 2009.

"Bell bell bell ......"

I rubbed my eyes and wanted to scold the street, but I saw the word "old man" displayed on the phone screen, so I decisively put away my anger and pressed the answer button.

But the strange thing is that no one on the other end of the phone spoke, just a busy sound of "zizizi", and after more than ten seconds, a few vague words occasionally came, which sounded like "two...... Seven...... Four...... Seven...... Seven...... Six....... ”

"What the fuck is this?" I frowned and cursed, and then dialed back.

To my surprise, I called four or five times in a row, and the other side of the phone always was: "Your call is temporarily unreachable, please call again later." ”

I glanced at the phone, frowned, and said, "What the fuck is this?" ”

After speaking, I looked at the time on my phone - 8:45, and muttered to myself: "Shouldn't this old man talk to Ying Laoqi in Tangkou in Xinzhou?" Why did you call me well? ”

Just as I was at the time of my surprise, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

The knock on the door was very urgent and forceful, and if the door wasn't strong enough, it is estimated that this person would have been unloaded by this person a long time ago.

Hearing this knock on the door, I scolded angrily: "Who? This early in the morning, what the fuck is going crazy? ”

With that, I put on my coat and walked out to open the door.

The person who knocked on the door is called Li Ming, a new guy in our family, a few years younger than me, very diligent, and very clever, and I have a good relationship with me on weekdays, often smoking and farting together, in my impression this guy is doing things and being measured, and he is by no means such a reckless master.

I saw that it was Li Ming, so I scolded angrily: "Are you crazy today?" Or is it fucking itchy and underwhelmed? Knocking so hard? ”

When Li Ming saw me open the door, he couldn't hide the anxious look on his face, and said loudly: "Little Hu Ye, it's not good, something is wrong!" ”

I frowned and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Are you in a hurry to become this bear-like? ”

Li Ming said anxiously: "Master, something is wrong!" ”

I exclaimed, "What? Something happened to my old man? What's wrong? ”

Li Ming nodded and said: "Three months ago, when the Eagle Hall Master was collecting things in the countryside of Xinzhou, he accidentally found an ancient tomb, I heard that it was a Tang tomb during the Tang Dynasty, and the scale was not small. The old man wanted to go down to the ground with the Eagle Hall Master to knock down this Tang Dou, but who would have thought that the two of them brought a dozen brothers and before they could reach the place, they suddenly lost contact with the brothers outside. No, a few leaders asked me to come over with you to discuss this matter together. ”

…… ……

Yiyuanzhai, the largest antique shop in the capital, is also an industry that our Hu family ancestors have laid down for generations.

To put it nicely, our Yiyuanzhai is doing a serious business of antique calligraphy and painting.

But to put it bluntly, our ancestors have been thieves in these eight doors for generations.

What is a thief?

Anything that is taken without money is a theft.

The lower eight doors have been led by thieves since ancient times, why?

Because the door is the largest, and the number of people is also the largest.

The more people there are, the more natural branches there are, and the more rules there are.

Our Hu family, in the door of the thief, take a golden word, pay attention to "compass to ask the sky to see the world, one tomb three questions five dusk".

To put it bluntly, it is the captain who touches the gold and asks the dragon and asks the hole, and goes to the ground to fight.

However, due to the continuous improvement of the protective development and policy of the national team's ancient tombs after the 70s, in my lifetime, the thieves have begun to sunset and slowly withdraw from the stage of history.

Not only that, but even the lower eight sects began to slowly fade out of people's field of vision, and many sects could only be heard occasionally in the mouths of storytellers.

As for me, surnamed Hu Mingtian, is the third generation of the Hu family, he is extremely aggressive when he is a child, and the fight is like a commonplace, and the old man of our family really can't help it in the end, so he asked someone to find a relationship to send me to be a soldier, and he only returned home this year.

One Yuan Zhai, the main hall.

The name of this hall is called Cup Plum, which is taken from a poem by Li Shangyin - "Drinking Alone in the Small Garden", "Half a dragon beard seat, drinking agate cup." Every year is uncertain, and I believe in the plum before the year. ”

When I arrived at this cup plum hall, there were already seven people sitting inside, both men and women, except for the second boss Uncle Xu, whom I knew, the rest of the people I saw for the first time.

I strode into the cup plum hall and said to Uncle Xu, "Uncle, what's wrong with our old man?" ”

Uncle Xu looked at me and said with a gloomy face, "You're here!" Xiaohu, sit down and talk about it first. ”

I nodded, and sat down in a chair on the outside.

Seeing me sitting down, Uncle Xu said, "Since everyone has arrived, let's talk about business!" ”

After saying this, Uncle Xu waved his hand, and a young girl turned out from behind a screen on the side of the cup and plum hall, dragging a large plate in her hand, the plate was covered with a red cloth, and the bottom of the cloth was bulging, and she didn't know what to put it.

The little girl dragged the plate to the center of the cup plum hall, stood still, and after giving a salute to the people around her, she put the plate on the table next to Uncle Xu.

Uncle Xu said slowly: "Some of you may know why I brought you here today, and some of you may not know why. But whether you know it or not, according to the rules, I still have to explain the reason. ”

Uncle Xu paused, and after scanning the people present with his eyes, he said slowly: "I think you have heard that our Yiyuanzhai hall master Ying Laoqi in Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, inadvertently received this thing when he went to the countryside to receive the goods three months ago......"

As he spoke, Uncle Xu slowly lifted the red cloth covering the plate.

As the red cloth was lifted little by little, a round jade with a large blue and white palm leaked out.

This jade has a strange shape, the carving is simple, from a distance it looks like a coiled green dragon, the dragon head is in the middle, a pair of extremely incongruous large eyes protrude outside, but when you look closely, it looks like a white toad crouching on the ground.

What's even more strange is that as soon as this jade appeared, the temperature in the entire cup plum hall seemed to drop by more than ten degrees at once, and even a faint layer of frost appeared on the glass.

"Owl Kiss Bead!"

After seeing this thing, four of the seven people in the cup plum hall screamed in shock.

A chubby woman couldn't hold her breath at first, and she said slowly in a tone that seemed to be the sound of a hen being trampled on the neck: "Recently, it has been rumored in the rivers and lakes that this Owl Kiss Bead is a pair, one ice and one fire, and the name is Owl Kiss Phoenix Luan, which is the left eye and right eye of the Buddha's guard Da Heitian. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he was found in a Tang Dynasty tomb by a captain named Monkey King, and his whereabouts are unknown. Unexpectedly, this kissing bead actually fell into the hands of Yiyuan Zhai today. ”

Uncle Xu looked at the woman and said, "Sister Li, you really know the past and the present. ”

A middle-aged man with a dark face on the side looked at the owl kiss bead, and there was a faint greedy light in his eyes, but he still asked quietly: "Second Master Xu, what do you mean by calling us all here today and taking out this owl kiss bead?" ”

Uncle Xu looked at the swarthy middle-aged man and said slowly: "I want to ask a few people for a favor, and this kissing bead is the reward." ”

"Oh?"

Hearing Uncle Xu's words, several people couldn't help but be surprised.

The swarthy middle-aged man frowned and asked, "What do you need us to do?" ”

Uncle Xu's eyes swept over each of their faces, and finally said lightly, "Find someone." ”

The chubby Sister Li asked, "Who?" ”

Uncle Xu said slowly: "Our shopkeeper, Master Hu!" ”

After speaking, Uncle Xu clapped his hands, and the little girl just now walked out from behind the screen again, this time she was holding a few photos in her hands.

One photo per person, I took it and looked at it, the content inside is a tortoise shell piece, not big, black and brown, the body presents a wide upper and narrow shape, the tortoise shell piece is engraved with two strange words, like tadpoles, and like a strange symbol.

Seeing that everyone got the photos, Uncle Xu asked slowly, "Who of you knows this thing?" ”

Before Uncle Xu's words fell, my phone rang again.

"Hello? Who is it? I picked up the phone and asked in a low voice.

"Oh my God, it's me, monkey!" A familiar voice came from across the phone.

This person's name is Hou Dayong, and I grew up wearing a pair of pants. This product is not on the right track on weekdays, and he makes a living by selling fakes in Panjiayuan, why do you call me today?

I whispered, "Monkey, what's wrong?" ”

Hou Dayong said anxiously on the other end of the phone: "Tian'er, something is wrong!" Do you have time now? I'm going to look for you, and you're the only one who can help me with this! ”

I was surprised and asked, "What's wrong?" What's going on? I've got something going on here, so why don't I get to you when I'm done? ”

Hou Dayong heard my words and said loudly: "Grandma's, when you come to me, the daylily is fucking cold!" ”

I said, "I'll wipe it, then you can quickly say something, I will do it for you now if I can help." ”

Hou Dayong said loudly on the other end of the phone: "Our old man is gone." ”

When I heard Hou Dayong's words, my whole body was shocked, and I asked in surprise: "What?" Your old man is gone? ”