Partridge Whistle shook his head and said, "The Black Water City of Western Xia was buried by quicksand, and the art of moving mountains and reclamation is indeed powerless against it. It can be passed down from ancient times, there is a way in the world to touch the gold school captain, good at searching the mountains to find the dragon, dividing the gold and setting the hole, his dragon hunting trick has the secret art of Tianxing Feng Shui, you can look up to the stars, look down on the earth's veins, if you can learn this technique, or please touch the gold school captain to help, want to find the black water city Tongtian Buddha Temple monuments, like a bag to get things. ”

Chen Blind said: "Touching Captain Jin? It is said that in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Sanye's generation, there are only three gold talismans left in the world, and after the Republic of China, I have never heard of the deeds of touching gold in the world. Even if there are three or two good players in the world who know how to divide gold and set acupoints, where can such a master go to find it? ”

It is said that the abbot of Wukuji Temple was a golden captain before he became a monk, but now there are a lot of things in the world to catch wind and shadows, swagger and deception, Chen Blind and Partridge Whistle have not dealt with the elder, I don't know his true or false origin, and although the old monk is superb in Zen, but after all, he is old, God knows if he is still alive in the world. Moreover, it is difficult to say whether the secret technique of Touching the Golden Captain can be used in the desert.

Partridge Whistle and Chen Blind each have a big thing to do, and both think that "the other party's idea of things is ethereal and unfounded, and it is difficult to succeed", both of them have made up their minds, so they can't look back, and in the end, they only say that "people have their own ambitions, and they can't be forced", but they are just going to go to find the dedication tomb and Heishui City separately in Xiangyin.

After / l days came news again, the bandit grass kou near the old bear ridge made a big move, to the ancient tomb of Dangong in Bottle Mountain, there was a fierce armed conflict between all parties, many people were killed and injured, not only the Dangong ancestral cave was destroyed, but also tasted the sweetness, felt that the tomb robbery could make a fortune, gathered the team to break the local county seat, and used explosives to blow up the "Fengming Ancient Tower" in Nuqing County.

This ancient tower is extremely right-handed, it has been repeatedly covered eight times in history, each time it is not more than ten years, it will inevitably collapse, it is not a cut of corners or man-made destruction, the reason for the collapse of the ancient tower can not be explained, until the last repair of the Yuan Dynasty, it has been preserved to this day, it is a famous monument in the place.

The bandits and local warlords took advantage of the momentum of the tomb robbery in Bottle Mountain, and used torture to force the old monk guarding the tower, and learned that there was a mausoleum buried under the Fengming Ancient Tower, which may be a monk who died with the general of the Yuan Dynasty in Bottle Mountain.

The group of thieves got the information, immediately blew up the ancient tower, and found several thousand catties of stone doors under the base of the tower, but there were not too many treasures in addition to the golden body of the monk, and there was also an incident of defrauding the corpse and Tudan, and someone ignited Ding explosives in the chaos, and the dead were not counted. The common people said that they had destroyed the ancient tower, and they couldn't stop the corpse king in the mountains.

Chen Blind Man was furious when he heard the news, and the opportunity for the thieves to miss the mountain group became the fulfillment of those unpopular thieves, and he couldn't help but be annoyed, thinking about making a big move to regain his prestige.

It coincides with the fifteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which happens to be the day when Master Guan sharpens his big knife, and there must be an annual reward and punishment ceremony. Changsheng Mountain's various units of incense ringing horses, all from all over the world to gather in this day, at the moment in Xiangyin Wusheng Temple opened the incense hall, offering the statue of the gods, the leaders of the thieves and horses from all walks of life gathered, seven or eight hundred people all gathered in front of the hall.

Every year on March 15, there is no rain that does not rain, and it is often unpleasant, and the same is true on this day. I saw that the sky was cloudy, drizzling like sorrow, deep in the dark clouds, faintly thunder rolling, although the hall was wide, it could only accommodate more than 100 people, and the rest of the hundreds had to stand in the rain. At the time of the new defeat, the atmosphere was extraordinarily solemn, and nearly 1,000 people were silent.

First of all, the thief Chen came out blindly, led the crowd to knock Guan Gong's knife, and then burned incense and prayed in front of the throne. Different from the ordinary burning incense on the green forest road, the thieves ring the horse and burn the incense, according to the ancient practice, they have to burn three and a half, which has many allusions to "advocating thieves and righteousness", implying three and a half branches of righteousness.

The first is to burn to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, these two people went to the Chu State together, and there was a lack of food and clothing halfway through, only enough for one person to maintain, Zuo Botao committed suicide in order to make the sheep horn decline and arrive in the Chu State, leaving all the clothes and food to his friends, and sacrificing his life to help the sheep horn decline to achieve meritorious deeds. The style of the ancients is still moving.

The other two handfuls of incense were burned to Liu, Guan, and Zhang in Taoyuan, as well as one hundred and eight generals in Shuibo Liangshan, who had both the "righteousness" of brothers and the "loyalty" of monarchs and ministers. In addition, the previous sheep and the left two people are all unwilling to bear each other until death, and it is passed on as a beautiful talk, so that future generations can worship and enjoy the whole incense.

And the last "half a handful of incense" is burned to the heroes of Wagangzhai. Why can't the heroes of Wagang receive full incense? It turned out that during the Sui and Tang dynasties, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had no way, the world was in turmoil, and the thirty-six friends of Jiajialou rebelled, gathered in Wagangzhai, and picked up the banner to fight against injustice for Tianxingdao, and was once famous all over the world. But later, this group of people obeyed Li Tang according to the will of heaven, only Shan Tong Shan Xiong Xin would rather die than surrender to Tang, and lost his life, when he was escorted to the court for execution, among his sworn brothers, only Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao came to the court to see each other. Therefore, the end of the righteousness of Wagang is incomplete, and they can only offer half of the incense to warn future generations.

Burning incense and worshipping the Holy Spirit of Shinto is the annual reward for meritorious deeds of the group of thieves in the mountains, and those who commit adultery must also be punished one by one. The so-called "thief also has a way", the horse thief is the true color of Liangshan, the official forced the people to rebel, the grass is a coward, or the stars are not met, and it is not enough to be ashamed of the temporary shelter in this green forest. However, the ringing horse also has the rules of the ringing horse, whoever violates the taboo is killing himself, and the punishment in the Changsheng Mountain is extremely harsh.

Chen Blind ordered the deacon in charge of the punishment to step forward and reiterate the precepts of Changsheng Mountain, and the deacon placed all kinds of torture instruments on the incense case in front of the hall in advance, and then recited in public: "Pick up the ashes and pour the stove (Pick up the ashes and pour the stove, eat inside and out, and be treacherous. Forgetting loyalty, breaking his feet and breaking his hands to dig a pit and bury it; The following offenders are not convinced, and the skin and flesh of eighty red sticks are charred; Greedy for water ventilation (greedy for water ventilation, water is a bright tool for money, wind refers to confidential information, leaking secrets, and embezzling stolen goods. Regarding the photo, three knives and six holes are also unforgivable; If you are careless in your words, you will chew the mountain name by yourself, and you will chew it yourself ......"

After the deacon read one by one, as soon as Chen Blind waved his hand, someone tied up seven or eight thieves and took them to the front of the hall. These people were all cowards who escaped from the battle with the treasures of the landslide in Bottle Mountain before, along with the deserters of the warlord army, and they were all captured later. They saw that the thief's face sank like water, and the temple was murderous, knowing that this time he would die, and the individual was like a sifting chaff.

I only heard the blind man Chen ask the deacon: "According to the rules of my Changsheng Mountain, how should the escapees who swallow water in battle and flee be released?" ”

The deacon replied, "This is a great transgression, and it is not forgivable." As a rule, the body should be in a different place under the white blade, and it cannot be buried as a whole corpse after death. The seven or eight bound thieves listened to every word clearly, and their faces were like ashes, and when the matter came, they couldn't complain about others, so they had to close their eyes and wait for death, and the rest of the thieves also looked at themselves in front of the hall.

But Chen Blind said: "The ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain has broken many of our brothers, this is my indecision, and I failed to plan well in advance. Although these brothers had a crime, they did not sin to death, and they were punished by extinguishing the lamp (extinguishing the lamp and plucking out the eyeballs. That's it. ”

The group of thieves admired the thief's frank confession of his own mind, and quickly dissuaded, saying that the matter of Bottle Mountain is the will of God, and it should be when I Changshengshan has this setback, not human power can be reversed, the fault is not one person, Changshengshan must not be leaderless, and in the future, I will expect the helmsman to take everyone to make a comeback.

Chen Blind was reluctant to give himself more than 100 catties, pretending to be dead and looking for life, but as soon as he was persuaded by everyone, he quickly got off the donkey, and also took the opportunity to spare those thieves, and ordered them to follow him to make a contribution. Several thieves took their lives back, and with tears streaming down their eyes, they bowed to the order with all their hearts.

Chen Blind walked to the front of the hall and said loudly in front of the group of thieves: "The decline of the world is now the autumn of heroes and heroes. 100,000 people of our generation unloaded the mountains and horses, since the defeat of the Han Dynasty Yimei army, scattered in all directions, gathered in the mountains and forests, so hidden in the mountains, the rivers and lakes have been hidden for a long time, although they only do some inverted fighting for profit, share the spoils and gather righteousness, but there are often big schemes. Looking at the situation in the world, the four seas are already turbulent, people's minds have changed, how can our generation not move a thought? Those who know the times can be called Junjie, and those who know the world should be heroes, on this good opportunity, we and other heroes are united in their ambitions, and heroes are concentric, and they will be able to draw a waist of gold and purple, and leave a name in history, and they will not be in vain for a lifetime, grass and trees. ”

The group of thieves were all reckless, and after listening to Chen Blind's very inflammatory words, they immediately said yes. It's just that now the warlords in the north are powerful, all of them are foreign guns and artillery, extremely sharp, although there are also a few warlords in Changsheng Mountain, but they are difficult to compete with them, without a large number of advanced arms, it will certainly not be possible.

Chen Blind said that the group of thieves in Jieling has always been to rob tombs for profit, in ancient times, a random imperial mausoleum, it was absorbed most of the wealth of the world at that time, as long as he stole an intact imperial mausoleum, or the tombs of the great princes, the gold, jewelry, jade, and even ancient treasures, I am afraid that tens of thousands of months are also inexhaustible. A few days ago, I happened to learn that after the Lancang River covers the dragon mountain, there is a tomb dedicated to the king, the tomb is poor and luxurious and solemn, and it is not a thing in the world.

But after all, Yunnan is high and far away, and it is not an overnight achievement to trek through mountains and rivers, and it is a wild place far away from the sphere of influence of Changsheng Mountain. The group of thieves who are ambitious want to follow, and those who are old and serious do not advocate going, and there are many who hesitate and discuss for a while.

This time, as long as he takes dozens of people south to Yunnan, in case of theft, he will not be able to sacrifice the ancient tomb of the king, and he will not lose too many people, otherwise he will die thousands of people, even if others don't say anything, he will not have the face to be a helmsman again. He had an idea in his mind, and when the voices in front of the hall calmed down a little, he said that he would lay out yellow paper, and invite the "red rooster" mantra handed down from ancient times, so as to decide who will go and who will not.

The group of thieves immediately agreed, this is a move to resign yourself to fate, and you will not be allowed to wander half-heartedly, and you will naturally go to make meritorious contributions, and the rest of the people who are targeted by the red rooster have nothing to say.

The so-called green forest is the underworld, and the opening of incense is inseparable from the actions of "cutting off the head of the chicken, burning yellow paper, and gambling and vowing". "Passing the Red Rooster" is also one of the "Chicken Cutting Orders", but it is not a righteous gambling curse, but the selection of the so-called tomb robbery death squad.

How do you name "Red Rooster"? I saw that in the haze of rain and fog, the lights and candles in the temple of Emperor Guan were burning, first please come out of the "writing", the names of the thieves in the unloading of the mountains, all written on a huge yellow paper, because there are too many people, after writing a look, the paper is densely packed with almost no gaps, follow the thieves to go to Yunnan Shalong Mountain to rob the tomb of the helper, will be selected from this list, how many people to go, who goes, all listen to the will of God.

Another deacon who cut chickens chose a big rooster that was vigorous and fresh, and sang it in front of everyone -- "Praise for cutting chickens" is nothing more than those "This chicken is originally in the sky, what does it do in the lower world?" Mortals want it to be useless, and the disciple takes it to cut the red chicken......" After singing the praise, the deacon pulled out a bright knife and knelt on the ground on one knee to Chen's blind man: "Dare to ask the helm handle, cut this phoenix chicken today, whether to use the literary cut or the military cut (Wen cut, cut the chicken neck; Wu cut, chop the head of the chicken. )？ ”

Chen Blind Man was originally sitting upright in the hall, but at this time he got up and saluted the phoenix chicken, and said to the deacon: "According to the old practice of red eyebrows, this is the name of the red rooster, neither literary nor martial arts, it depends on the eloquence of the brothers." ”

The deacon received the "eloquence" order, put the frost blade in his mouth, carried the big rooster in front of his eyes, shook his head, and the sharp blade in his mouth cut the neck of the chicken, and then the deacon opened his mouth to let go of the knife, and shouted: "It's too red!" Grabbed the golden rooster that had been cut open with both hands, and swept sideways from west to east from the top of the yellow paper with names written on the incense table, and the chicken blood just gushed out, and the blood was poured on the yellow paper bit by bit.

All the names of the people on the list paper who were spotted with chicken blood, even if they were "red", these people had to go to Yunnan with Chen Blind, and after counting more than 30 people, they immediately announced and read out their names and surnames.

The thieves, who no one is famous, all hugged their fists to congratulate the people who committed the red crimes, and toasted one after another; Those who hit the name must drink three bowls of blood wine in a row to suppress the shock and spill it into a dry cup. The blood is the blood of the golden rooster, the wine is Du Kang wine, and after drinking the blood wine, it can be regarded as eliminating the evil spirit of the red on the "roll call". The thief also gave each person a sum of money on the spot to settle the family, which was called "life money".