"He really opened his eyes!" Bazimei grew up in the paper man Zhang's family, and his courage must be not small, but at that moment he was really frightened, the old man in the wooden statue did not have a trace of evil breath, as if he had woken up from sleep, but when he opened his eyes, what brought Bazimei was an indescribable fear and pressure. And it was still in the water at the time, and the eight-character eyebrows didn't dare to open their mouths in one breath, and all of a sudden, the breath seemed to rush to the heart, and the whole person suddenly fainted.

His luck was very good, he surfaced after passing out in the water, and drifted far with the current in the heavy rain. It wasn't until the rain stopped that I woke up and climbed ashore. What he experienced before now looks like a dream in retrospect, but when Bazimei woke up, he was still holding the lotus tree with the thickness of his forearm in his hand, and it was this lotus wood that made him feel that it was not a dream, but real.

"When I think about it, it was really not the right time." Bazi Mei licked the blood at the corner of his mouth.

He was so breathless that he couldn't get up and fainted. But before he fell into a coma, he vaguely felt that the old man lying in the wooden statue seemed to be about to say something. But when Bazimei thought about this, it was too late, the river was still flowing, and the wooden statue at the bottom of the river was gone. The lotus wood with the thickness of the small arm may be the only harvest of the eight-figure eyebrow. It took him a lot of effort to grind the piece into the stick it is now. At that time, Bazimei just thought that this wood was expensive, but since he brought this wooden stick, something unexpected happened to him.

Bazimei's age is more than 20 years younger than the old woman, but after he wears a lotus stick, it seems that he will not be old, and his appearance seems to be getting younger and younger, just like the rejuvenation mentioned in Taoist classics. In the first few years, the problem was not big, but after a long time, the people of the paper man Zhang family would definitely suspect that Bazimei knew that this must have something to do with the huge wooden statue at the bottom of the Yellow River, or rather, it had something to do with the lotus wooden stick in his hand.

After a long time, he had to leave the Zhang family, once he was suspected by the other party, he would inevitably ask him, and he would take away this wooden stick, and the eight-character eyebrows were not the descendants of the Zhang family, and under the conflict of interests, he could only be a victim. So in the past ten years, Bazimei has been wandering outside, and he hasn't even stepped into the door of Zhang's house.

I touched the lotus stick in my hand back and forth, and gradually understood in my heart. The old knife said that the lotus tree will not die, no matter how many years it has been out of the soil, as long as it is planted back, it can still draw branches and grow leaves. What will be the result of such a divine tree when it is placed on a person?

As I was pondering, my eyebrows began to move back and forth, saying that I was tied too tightly, and the blood in my arms could not flow, and it was very uncomfortable. I told him to be honest, and then asked, "Why did the old woman go to deal with the people of Baoliu Village in the middle of the night?" "

"Lao Tzu"

"Don't fuck me! Who Lao Tzu! I raised the wooden stick, and there was fire in my heart, but it was tied strongly, and I didn't dare to attack, so I immediately changed my mouth.

"I don't know."

The reason why the old woman dealt with the Song family in Baoliu Village was not very clear, and she originally wanted to help, but the old woman felt that it was unnecessary. However, the sudden appearance of the old knife immediately disrupted the old woman's plan, so she found the Bazi Mei and returned, trying to kill us. I looked at the eight-character eyebrows, and I was telling whether he was lying or not, about the copper wooden statue, it had nothing to do with the eight-character eyebrows, and he didn't need to lie, but in the middle of the night, he attacked Baoliu Village, which was obviously a major event for the seven gates, maybe there were more important secrets, and the eight-character eyebrows might not be so honest.

"Besides," the eight-figure eyebrows squeezed his eyes, interrupting my train of thought, "how did you get mixed up with that old fellow?" "

I was stunned for a moment, and then I realized that the eight-character eyebrows were talking about the old knife.

"Why, I don't know him well."

"I'll tell you." Bazimei sighed and said, "He is holding a snake seal knife, and you are still with him, don't you know what is going on here?" "

"Him?" Come to think of it, the old knife told me that he was from the River Bureau, and I didn't doubt it, but the snake seal knife in his hand must be unusual and has a considerable background.

"If you are holding the Zhenhe Mirror, you must be the same as the Song family in Baoliu Village, and you are a member of the Seven Gates of Hehezi." Bazi Mei has a sense of sowing discord, smacking his lips and saying, "You don't know about the snake seal knife?" "

"What do you want to say?" I looked at the eight-character eyebrows, he was scheming deeper than me, and asked me about the relationship between me and the old knife in three or two clicks, and the more I looked at him, the more I felt that he was stirring up trouble. But what does that snake seal knife have to do with the Seven Gates? Grandpa never said these things in the past, and the old ghost never said them.

"Those who don't know are not guilty, and it's no wonder that you don't know anything." Bazi Mei said: "Do you know the thirty-six side doors of the Yellow River Beach?" "

"Nonsense."

"Then I'll tell you, a long time ago, there was no such thing as thirty-six side doors." Bazimei observed my expression as he spoke, and said, "The thirty-six side gates only appeared to deal with the seven gates of the river." "

"!" I retorted at the time, one was that I didn't believe the words of Bazimei, and the other was that I thought that the seven gates of the river were so annoying, and I was a person from the seven gates, so I naturally didn't want to think like this.

The eight-character eyebrows are not in a hurry, and they start talking slowly. In the past, the people who sailed on both sides of the Yellow River were actually people from the rivers and lakes, all kinds of people, engaged in all kinds of livelihoods, and over time, some interest groups would appear, some were families, and some were close and special people. These people have no common goal, they go their own way, and one family occupies a piece of territory, which is similar to the bandits who occupy the mountains.

What era did those things happen, the eight-character eyebrows did not explain, in short, it was a long time, at that time, the seven gates of the river had appeared, the seven gates at that time were very united, they only patrolled the river and the town, did not fish for parallel goods, and did not compete with others for any interests, so the large and small gangs on the Yellow River beach were not embarrassed by the seven gates, and they were safe.

One year, some people came from the west, and no one knows where they came from, but anyway, when they are mentioned, they will be referred to as "from the west". Those were some mysterious people, although the number was small, but they were very powerful, and they were quite ruthless, and they killed on the Yellow River beach for two years, and they were afraid of all those large and small gangs. In those days, any dogma and royal law were nothing, and in the Yellow River beach, whoever had a hard fist was the ironclad king law. The gangs that these people killed were frightened, and finally gathered them together, and then, according to the situation, divided into thirty-six side gates.

In fact, the thirty-six side gates are not accurately divided into thirty-six gates, that is a general term, those who came from the west used various means to divide the thirty-six side gates, and only gave them one task, that is, to destroy the seven gates of the river.

"Why don't they do it themselves?"

"You are also a member of the Seven Gates, and you really don't know anything about the people of your ancestors?" Bazi frowned and said, "Do you think the people in the seven doors are vegetarians?" "

The seven gates of the river have never joined forces with anyone to do things, and they are used to being alone, if compared with the thirty-six side gates, then the number of the seven gates is very small, but because there are few people, their whereabouts are more secretive. Those who came from the west must have expected that the complete destruction of the seven gates would not be something that could be accomplished in three or five years, so they divided the thirty-six side gates and carried on this matter for a long time.

"Thirty-six side doors, the head of the house is called the leader, those people in the west disappeared after dividing the thirty-six gates, and the head they pushed out was the Hu family in Huangshachang."

Huangsha field, generally refers to the sand mining gang on both sides of the river, the profit of sand mining is low, but there are perennial inputs, not like other people who fish for parallel goods, not open for half a year, open for half a year. In addition to sand mining, the Huangsha Field will not let go when encountering parallel goods, and in the past, they also traded with salt merchants in the south, so the Huangsha Field is the richest. If there is money, there will be power, and it is not unreasonable that the Hu family can be pushed to be the leader of the 36 gates.

The thirty-six gates are actually the same as the seven gates of the river, when they first appeared, there was a strict constraint, and the orders of the leader must be executed, which is a relatively complete whole. The snake seal knife is something left by those who came from the west to the thirty-six door heads, and it is a symbol of power, and if someone disobeys the orders of the head of the door, they can be killed with the snake seal knife at any time.

When the thirty-six gates first appeared, they almost forced the seven gates to have no way to live, so many people didn't do anything every day, they searched for the people of the seven gates, and once they found them, they killed them immediately. If it were put on someone else, being chased and killed by so many people, it might not be able to withstand it for a long time, and he would have left his hometown. But the people of Qimen have always persevered, no matter how severe the situation is, they have never left this big river, and still follow the rules of their ancestors, patrolling the river and town the river.

Therefore, the snake seal knife of the thirty-six gates is an absolute rival with the seven gates of the river, although with the passage of time, the thirty-six side doors have completely become a false name, but for the seven gates, those past events cannot be forgotten.

After listening to Bazimei's words, I realized why he felt that it was strange for me to stay with the old knife. Originally, I was more wary of the old knife, but once I learned about these past events, my resistance became even stronger.

"Be careful." Bazi Mei continued: "That old guy is the bloody eye of the Hu family in Huangshachang for a hundred years. "

It is said that the ancestral house of the Hu family in Huangshachang was built on the site of a Taoist hall, the Taoist hall, commonly known as the immortal temple, is rumored to be the place where Sanfeng Zhenren went to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, where he lingered for a while, since then, this immortal temple has become a well-known place, is the only holy trace that can grab incense with the Longwang Temple on both sides of the Yellow River. The immortal temple was later destroyed in the war, and after the Hu family occupied the ruins of the Taoist hall in Huangshachang, every time one or two Jiazi passed, among the children and grandchildren of the family, there would be a "bloody eye" born.