The next day, at half past ten at noon. Mengya and I came to the "Summer Palace" private room in Hongbin Building half an hour early. I saw that in this private room, a round table was placed in the center of the stall. Master and the four older elders, and a white-haired young man sat at the round table drinking tea.

"Autumn Boy!" Master called out to me and nodded to let me go.

I walked over and stood beside Master: "Master, what do you command?" ”

"This is your uncle, go over and salute."

I was stunned, nodded, and looked at the young man in the white mask, who was obviously not as old as me.

The young man looked at me too, with no expression on his face. I went over and bowed to them and sat down next to Master.

"Snack before serving!"

As soon as I sat down, a loud voice came in from outside the door.

As soon as this greeting ended, I saw a very beautiful waitress wearing a cheongsam dragging four blue and white high-legged plates from the Qing Dynasty, and scattered the plates on the four corners of the table.

These four blue and white stilt plates are neatly placed in the diamond-shaped yokan hawthorn cake and pea yellow, and the diamond-shaped blocks of various colors form a crystal clear lotus flower, and there are eight pieces of skinned horseshoe around it, which is very exquisite.

"Fourth brother, what is the purpose of inviting a few of us old guys here?" An old man in a leather coat with white hair sitting at the round table in the middle said.

"yes, we can't eat your food for nothing, can we?" Another gray-haired old man with a bamboo stick said.

With a smile on his face, the master took a sip of tea and waved his hand mysteriously.

"Hey, hey......" a middle-aged and old-aged, somewhat pedantic man with eyes sneered. Ahem, isn't it just a meal, don't you? ”

"Who in the industry doesn't know that the fourth brother's meal is not delicious?" The old man with a stick said.

The pedant smiled playfully, and glanced at the old man on crutches out of the corner of his eye: "Old eight, you know that this meal is not delicious, and you still come?" ”

This old man nodded the bamboo crutch in his hand, knocked on the ground, and smiled: "Kaleidoscope, don't talk nonsense with me, for so many years, who doesn't know that your portal is a dog lifting the curtain and relying on your mouth." ”

This kaleidoscope didn't get annoyed after hearing this sarcasm, and snorted, with a joking look on his face: "Abductor, you think about it yourself, in so many years of trading, what is missing from my kaleidoscope." I'm not like some people who have always been brutal and almost harmed, and my own portal was almost destroyed by others. ”

Lao Ba looked at the kaleidoscope sitting opposite the round table expressionlessly, tapped the ground with the cane in his hand, tapped it three times, and was silent.

"Okay, okay, I haven't seen each other for so long, why do you fight when you meet, it's all old brothers and brothers." The white-haired old man in a black leather coat persuaded.

When Lao Ba and Kaleidoscope heard this old man's persuasion, they were all dissatisfied, and Lao Ba sighed: "Lord Longwang, I respect you as the sect master of our lower three sects, so I won't worry about him." ”

Kaleidoscope glared at Lao Ba, obviously very dissatisfied with his "Gao Feng Liang Festival", and covered his dissatisfaction with that kind of sinister smile, and said: "That's it, since it is the Dragon Lord who persuaded you, although I am a person from the third gate, I am not a literati and I can't care about anything with him." As he spoke, he stretched out his chopsticks to clip the yokan on the table.

Syllable.

Just as his chopsticks were about to touch the yokan, from his left side, another pair of chopsticks knocked his chopsticks out, and the kaleidoscope chopsticks fell to the ground.

Kaleidoscope was very dissatisfied, picked up chopsticks from the ground and looked at his right side, which turned out to be the young man with white hair, blue eyes, and a mask.

The young man looked at him coldly, threw the chopsticks he had used just now into the trash can next to the table, his voice was very hoarse, and he said gloomily: "It won't be your turn to move the chopsticks." ”

Kaleidoscope was obviously very jealous of this young man, and hurriedly nodded, wiping the cold sweat from his head.

The corners of the old ba's mouth on the side rose slightly, revealing a gloating look.

"Third brother, I don't know when the eldest brother and second brother will come." Kaleidoscope said with a flattering expression.

"I don't know." The white-haired boy said coldly.

Kaleidoscope was choked back by his cold sentence of not knowing, and he didn't know what to say, so he lowered his head secretly.

"The guests have arrived!"

A crisp voice came in from outside the door, and I saw an old man with gray hair and a man about seventy years old with gray hair walking in together.

As soon as these two men appeared, everyone in the audience stood up.

"Big brother, second brother."

The two nodded slightly, and saw that the white-haired old man had a very serious face, and the white-haired old man was very kind, with a smile on his face, and the two sat on the two free chairs at the round table.

"Sit down." The white-haired old man said in a deep voice.

With that, everyone sat down in their chairs.

I looked back at the two men carefully, the white-haired old man looked like he was over eighty years old, with a few age spots on his face, although he was already old and pale, but his eyes were very bright, like two golden lamps. He was dressed in white Chinese-style clothes and stepped on a pair of mille-feuille shoes. Holding a golden pot made by the Qing Dynasty court, the cigarette pouch pot with a blue pineapple lacquer burden and a white jade cigarette holder seemed to be still burning.

The gray-haired old man is much younger than the white-haired old man next to him, without too many wrinkles and age spots, and always has a very kind smile on his face. Wear a very ordinary casual dress and sneakers. He kept rubbing the two iron balls in his hand, but the iron balls did not make a sound.

"The third child, it's early enough." The white-haired old man and the white-haired boy beside him said.

"Big brother and second brother, it's not too late for you to come." The young man said in a hoarse voice.

The master stood up and hurriedly signed a sign (salute) for the two old men: "Big brother and second brother, I didn't expect you two to come, I, I ......" said that, such an old age actually cried.

The two old men also sighed, their white heads and shallow eye sockets, and wiped the tears on their faces with their hands.

"Fourth, since the fifth betrayed our Jingjiumen and took refuge in Changsha Jiumen, the third child has become like this." Saying this, the old man sighed. "We haven't gotten together for several years, and I heard that Lao Jiu is also ......" Speaking of this, the old man didn't say any more.

"What?" The old crutch shouted in surprise. "Is it true that Lao Jiu let this scum be slaughtered?" As he spoke, he had tears in his eyes, and blood poured into his pupils.

"Autumn Boy." Master shouted at me and nodded to call me over. "This is my apprentice Qiu Tong, he knows what happened to Brother Ren."

I nodded and stood up, walked to the round table, and learned from Master to sign a lot for the eight elders present.

"Get up, you're the autumn boy of the white grass hall, right?" The white-haired old man asked.

I nodded, and the master smiled: "Qiu Tong, this is the Tongtian Pass of the first gate of the Jingjiu Gate, you Guan Shibo." ”

Jingjiumen, Beijing's mysterious antique organization. It is divided into nine sects, known as the Nine Sects. This white-haired old man "Guan Ye", nicknamed "Tongtianguan" by people in the industry, can be said to be known to everyone in the industry. The second door is to rub the white head of the iron ball next to it, and the name "Hou Qiankun" inside and outside the line. This third door is this white-haired young man, this person is unusually mysterious, most of them only know this person's surname Zhang, and the industry calls him "Grimace Zhang", the reason is that this person is like facial paralysis, and the most important thing is that there is a very terrifying mouth hidden under his mask, so it is called Grimace. The fourth gate is my master, so I won't go into too much detail here. The fifth gate is the Yunye who was caught in the Fengshan Hall, because he betrayed the Jingjiu Gate, so he didn't talk about the matter of seniority in front of me. The sixth gate is the one with eyes, a kaleidoscope of pedantic air on his face, although this person looks very sour, but it is said to be very erudite, up to astronomy and down to geography. The seventh gate is the leather-clad old man Dragon Wangye, whose real name is unknown, but some people call him "Sha Laoqi". The eighth gate is the Liu Laoba who is on a bamboo crutch, and his nickname in the industry is "Tie Guan Liu". This last door is Ren Tai'an, who opened a store in Liulichang and was destroyed by Yun Ye. I won't introduce it here, because they will all show their skills later.