Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Old Returns

Hearing this, Master Jingkong pondered for a moment, then shook his head helplessly, "Call him in!"

Gao Jie didn't wait for Chen Dake to move, and rushed out of the hall first to attract guests.

The void master looked at Gao Jie's disappearing back with a wry smile, and said with love and hatred: "It's just a little monkey!"

Chen Dake, who had just sat down at the bottom, laughed loudly and said, "It's still a monkey with a flowery mouth!"

Hearing this, Master Clearance and Yao Shimen couldn't help but look at each other and laughed.

When he came to the gate of the compound, Gao Jie saw Yu Hongzhi with his hands on his waist, his tall and burly body almost blocked the gate like a wall, and he felt secretly funny in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "Brother Yu, can I go out?"

When Yu Hongzhi heard Gao Jie's voice, his head shook like a rattle, and he said solemnly: "Childe, there is a dangerous stranger outside, you can't go out!"

Gao Jie patted him on the solid shoulder and said loudly: "Okay, the person who came is an acquaintance of my master, not a dangerous enemy!

When Yu Hongzhi heard that it was the order of the Pure Sky Master, his huge body immediately flashed to the door and stopped talking, but a pair of copper bell-like eyes were still staring at the stranger vigilantly.

Gao Jie knows that Yu Hongzhi is honest and upright, his brain is not very good, and he often has a tendon, he only listens to three people now, one is the divine doctor Xu Hongru, the other is the pure space master, and the third is himself, the "son" in his mouth. It's just that there is still a difference between this obedient level, and the highest level is naturally Xu Hongru, and Gao Jie is the last.

Gao Jie walked out of the courtyard gate, only to see a young man less than thirty years old standing outside, he was of medium stature, his eye sockets were deep, his blue eyes looked very deep and mysterious, there was a small curly mustache on his lips, the whole person was a little happy, wearing a long gray coat, black cloth shoes, and a six-edged white round hat on his head, which was also embroidered with exquisite patterns.

Looking at the familiar and cordial dress of the person in front of him, Gao Jie suddenly became excited, stepped forward quickly, spread the palm of his right hand, naturally placed it on his chest, and greeted: "Press the color of the two eyes to come to Kun!"

When the strange young man saw this, he was very surprised at first, but then his face was happy, and he replied in return: "Wu'er comes to Kunse!"

Gao Jie was a Hui ~ clan member in his previous life, and when he saw that person's dress, he knew that he was a Hui Hui, and he was close with surprise, so he naturally used national etiquette and greetings to greet him.

The Hui greeting ceremony is mainly "Se Liangmu", Arabic transliteration, which originally means peace, peace and tranquility. Hui people congratulate and greet each other. The full name of the question is "Pray of Allah for peace", and the full name of the answer is "Ur Lai Kun Se Rum", which means "Peace for you also by Allah". This ritual originated in Arabia, and according to religious legend, Ibrahim and his wife were born as a "holy person" to whom angels had told him "Serum" in advance, and during the time of Muhammad's mission, "Seram" was widely spoken of and regarded as a "Sunnah". The Arabs and Persians who came to China in the Tang Dynasty brought this custom into China, and it became the custom of the ancestors of the Hui people and the Hui people, which has been followed to this day.

The Hui are an alien ethnic group, not native to China, and compared with other ethnic groups, it was formed relatively late, and it is a relatively young ethnic minority. Judging from historical records, the Hui people were formed by the gradual integration of various ethnic groups outside the region in the long-term development. As early as the Tang and Song dynasties, a large number of Arab and Persian merchants came to China to do business and trade, and they married Chinese wives and settled in China. These people became the early ancestors of the Hui.

After the rise of the Mongols in the early 13th century, Genghis Khan and his descendants began a large-scale expedition to the west, destroying the Uighurs, Western Liao, and Khorezm, and then conquering Baghdad, destroying the Abbasid dynasty. During the war, the Mongols sent captured Arabs and Persians as well as the Mu~Slin of various ethnic groups in Central Asia as soldiers and incorporated them into the Mongol army, which was called the "Hui Hui Army". These Hui armies then participated in the Mongol wars against the Western Xia, Jin, and Southern Song dynasties. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, these Hui troops spread all over the country due to the need to garrison, garrison, and reclaim, and their number was about two or three million. The army of the Yuan Dynasty itself was composed of many ethnic groups, and the martial arts skills of different ethnic groups of different styles were learned, exchanged, enriched and improved by each other.

A review of historical documents shows that there are two main sources that constitute the Hui army: first, ordinary soldiers and craftsmen with certain skills brought by the leaders of various tribes in the Western Regions when they surrender; Second, during the Mongol expedition to the west, the Mongols forcibly recruited all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, as well as young and middle-aged Arabs and Persians. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the number of Hui troops was extremely large, and later under the unified organization and management, they pioneered the fields and engaged in agricultural production. This situation is generally divided into two processes: one is that before the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, Tuntian was a temporary measure, which was very military in nature and mainly served the needs of war; The second is that after the Yuan Dynasty unified the whole country, the tuntian was fixed as a system and extended to the whole country, with the purpose of "using soldiers in agriculture to save grain and wages", so as to solve the needs of the garrison's soldiers' salaries and grain transportation. However, with the end of the war, the reclamation of the Hui army caused some soldiers to gradually break away from the military and slowly integrate into the local residents, forming a residential pattern of "large scattered and small concentration". It is precisely because of the change of identity of a large number of returning military personnel that many military martial arts have flowed into the people, and gradually spread, forming a martial arts school with strong characteristics. These martial arts are practiced and inherited among the Mu ~ Silin people, and after a long period of induction and summary by later generations, they slowly formed the prototype of today's Hui martial arts, so the Yuan Dynasty became the birthplace of Hui martial arts.

Under the conditions of the war at that time, Mu ~ Slin also imported swords and other weapons with Central Asian and West Asian styles to China. For example, due to the arrival of some Hui craftsmen, a large number of military equipment was manufactured for the Mongolian army, such as the ring knife commonly used by the Mongolian army. It is recorded in the "Black Tatar Story" that "the ring knife, the effect is back to the sample, light and sharp, small and flat, so it is easy to transport." This form was rare in the Central Plains in the past. Other tools, such as swords, axes, melon hammers, and knives, have a wide variety of names and inconsistent forms. It can be seen that at that time, due to the different conditions and status, various ethnic groups had their own martial arts traditions and characteristics, and the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty strengthened the exchange of this martial arts culture, and the Huihui martial arts was the fruit of this exchange.

After the two greeted each other, Gao Jie smiled and said, "My name is Gao Jie, I am fifteen years old this year, what do you call my eldest brother?!"

The young man's mustache was slightly upturned, and he also said with joy on his face: "Little brother Gao Jie, I have already seen you when I came with the gang leader a few days ago, hehe, my name is Ma Shouying, I am twenty-seven years old this year, and everyone in the gang likes to call me old Huihui! By the way, little brother Gao Jie, how do you know the etiquette of our Hui clan?"

Gao Jie's eyes lit up, this Ma Shouying is a celebrity, he is nicknamed "Lao Huihui", a native of Suide, Shaanxi. He was one of the first important leaders of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and persevered to the end, and occupied an important position in the history of the Hui people's struggle against oppression.

Moreover, in addition to being an outstanding leader, this Ma Shouying was a well-known thinker and military advisor in the later peasant rebel army because he was thoughtful, good at making plans and arranging troops.

Gao Jie was very happy, Gao Jie grabbed Ma Shouying's hand, and pulled him into the yard while laughing: "My ancestors are also Hui people, but now I don't dare to dress like you!"

Originally, in the Yuan Dynasty of the previous dynasty, the political, economic, and cultural status of the Hui people were relatively high, and the clothing customs of the Hui people, like other customs, were free without any restrictions.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the clothing customs of the Hui people began to be restricted, and the Hui people were not based on their beliefs and customs and the clothing styles of their ancestors, combined with the reality of living and developing in China, to wear whatever they wanted, and how they wanted to dress up, but were forced and restricted by the ruling class. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, adopted the policy of prohibiting "Hufu" and let the Hui people wear Han costumes, so that the clothing customs that the Hui people began to form could not be developed quickly and could not be respected.

Therefore, the vast majority of Hui people are no different from Han people in their current clothes, and it is really rare to see someone like Ma Shouying, an old Hui Hui, wearing a characteristic national costume to swagger through the market.

When Ma Shouying heard that Gao Jie was also a Muslim, he suddenly felt a little close.

The two soon came to the hall and saw a sixty-year-old nun sitting on the main seat, and two men in their thirties sitting on the left and right and bowing their heads. Ma Shouying hurriedly let go of Gao Jie's hand, stood up straight respectfully, and made a Hui salute: "Ma Shouying, the helmsman of the Gansu branch of the Yibang, has seen the master of the pure space and the two heroes!"

After Chen Dake and them returned the salute, the Void Master beckoned Ma Shouying to sit down and praised: "The master of the horse helm is in an important position in the righteous gang at a young age, and he dresses boldly, and acts neither humbly nor arrogantly, he is really a hero and a young man!"

Ma Shouying's face was slightly red, and he hurriedly said: "Shouying is immoral and incompetent, and he is wrongly loved by the gang master, so he is in the position of the helmsman of Gansu in a panic, and he can only do his best to repay him with death!"

Everyone saw that this young man was not only generous in action, but also spoke appropriately, and secretly admired Wang Jiayin's extraordinary vision, his ability to recognize people, and his courage to use people!

The Void Master smiled and said, "Why did the Horse Helmsman come this time?"

Ma Shouying got up and hugged his fists and said: "Mrs. Shi is a master in the world, and he is the former benefactor of my family gang leader, please call in the next Shouying! A few days ago, in the battle for the treasure of the hidden soldier cave in the village, my gang leader obeyed the will of the master and retreated in time in the scam, but did not return to the gang, but took me and several other people to hide around the village, in case the forces of luxury, safety and murder were unwilling to come again, endangering the master and you. It was not until today that the helper estimated that the crisis had been resolved, so he sent the guard to visit the master first, conveying the helper's hope to visit the benefactor again in more than 20 years, and asking for the master's permission!"

Chen Dake and Yao Shimen were dumbfounded when they heard this, even Gao Jie was stupid, they didn't expect that the Pure Sky Master would be the benefactor of Wang Jiayin, the world-famous generation of heroes and the leader of the first gang of righteous gangs in the north, it was too incredible.