A smile appeared on the corner of Xu Gui's mouth, and he said happily: "That's right, it's a tiger stick, it's a tiger stick, this is my father's tiger stick." ”

"What kind of tiger stick?" Yi Dan asked.

At this time, Gu Xiaofeng came over, and after seeing the tiger beating stick in Xu Gui's hand, he said, "That's right, I remember it too." The senior who taught me the stick method in the first place, he is holding this stick in his hand, but I don't know where this old man is now?"

Xu Gui heard Gu Xiaofeng say this, sad thoughts came to his heart, he gently stroked the tiger stick, and couldn't suppress his thoughts about his father. But he didn't answer Gu Xiaofeng's question, he just wanted to confirm again that the stick method he saw Gu Xiaofeng using at sea yesterday was the Southern Shaolin Tiger Stick method taught to him by his father. So Xu Gui said to Gu Xiaofeng: "Xiaofeng hero, I have a reluctant request, I don't know if you can agree?"

"Mr. Xu, why are you so polite. You are all friends of Sister Yi, please tell me if you have any instructions. Gu Xiaofeng said briskly.

"Okay, I want you to ask if you can use it again, let me see the stick technique that the senior passed on to you here back then?" Xu Gui said.

Xiaofeng said briskly: "Okay, of course it's no problem, it's a trivial matter, look at it." ”

After that, Gu Xiaofeng picked up the heavy rice stick in his hand and began to play the stick in style.

Xu Gui was on the side, carefully observing each of Gu Xiaofeng's moves. The more I looked, the clearer I became. So he began to follow the rhythm of Xiaofeng's playing with a stick, and chanted: "Turn over and kill the two tigers, and sweep the heads of the tigers with the stick." The tiger pounced from the bottom and rushed up, flying and spinning down to the top of the mountain. The snake hit the seven-inch tiger and pulled out the teeth, and the tiger's ass touched it. The stick fell and dared to seek skin with the tiger, and the tiger was transferred from the mountain to hit hard. ”

Gu Xiaofeng listened to Xu Gui's mantra instructions and completed his moves more keenly. After putting away the stick, Gu Xiaofeng asked happily, "Mr. Xu, how do you know the key to my stick method?"

Xu Gui asked, "Do you know what the name of this stick method you played?"

Gu Xiaofeng said proudly: "I know, it's called the 'Tiger Stick Method'." That senior told me about it. ”

Xu Guidao: "Yes, but not all right. ”

Xiaofeng asked, "What's right, and it's not all right?" That's what that senior told me at the beginning, how could it be that it's not all right?"

Xu Guidao: "The full name of this set of stick methods should be called 'Southern Shaolin Tiger Stick Method'." ”

Yi Dan stepped forward and asked, "Southern Shaolin Tiger Stick Method?" Could it be the stick method of the Southern Shaolin Temple founded by the Shaolin monks who assisted Tang Taizong in pacifying the world when they went south to Fujian?"

"That's right, it's the monks and soldiers of Songshan Shaolin, the South Shaolin Temple established in Putian in the south. This set of stick methods is the Southern Shaolin Tiger Stick Method. Xu Gui said.

Youming asked curiously, "Senior sister, how do you know this?"

Yi Dan said: "Senior brother, have you forgotten? There was a Shaolin master who taught me martial arts. ”

"Oh, by the way, I remember, it's your sheep master, right? He told you?" asked Youming.

"yes. However, Mr. Xu, I have seen the Shaolin stick method made by the Shaolin monks, and the stick method used by the Xiaofeng brothers just now, there seem to be many differences. This Shaolin stick method is light and invisible. And this set of stick methods made by the Xiaofeng brothers is fierce and abnormal. Although it looks a little bulky, its moves can hit the enemy's vital points directly. Please forgive me for saying bluntly, this is not quite like the martial arts of Buddhism's compassion, but more like a kung fu routine on the rivers and lakes. Besides, I haven't heard of any Southern Shaolin tiger stick fighting method on the rivers and lakes, this set of martial arts, right?"

Xu Guidao: "That's right, Miss Yi is really an expert, and you can see the difference at a glance." In fact, this South Shaolin Tiger Stick Method, although the basic number of roads is from the Shaolin Stick Method, but later after artificial changes, it became what it is now. Because it is a single generation of generations, it has never been famous in the rivers and lakes. ”

Gu Xiaofeng said with interest: "I see, I have practiced this stick method for so many years, and I really don't know the origin of this stick method. Can you please explain it in detail, Mr. Xu?"

Xu Guidao: "Speaking of the origin of this set of stick methods, there is still a long story. Where do we have to start? Let's start with the period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Gu Xiaofeng dropped the bulky stick and looked at Xu Gui curiously, looking forward to the story he was about to tell about the source of his stick technique. Yi Dan and his junior brother Youming also looked at Xu Gui with expectant eyes.

Then, Xu Gui looked at the iron rod left by his father in his hand and began to tell his father's story.

"In the twenty-ninth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty pacified Eastern Xianbeilia, and the entire northeast tribes were subordinated to the Tang Dynasty and became part of the Tang Dynasty, including the cave island that hung alone in the sea of ice (cave said that the island is today's Sakhalin Island in the outer northeast). ”

Yi Dan interjected: "Well, I know about this matter, this matter, Tingfeng Tang also participated in meritorious service back then, and everyone in the rivers and lakes should know about it." ”

Xu Guidao: "That's right. In the thirtieth year of the Tang Dynasty, in the county tribe on the other side of the island, there was a young man called 'County Li Tiesa'. He had long wanted to go south to Tangdi to take a look. Taking advantage of this opportunity of the unification of the world, he went all the way south, farther and farther, and finally came to the warm and humid southern Fujian. There, he fell in love with a beautiful Chinese girl, so he wanted to settle down and never return to the cold north. But this young man named Junli Tiesa was originally a Hu man from the north, and he was not very good at farming and fishing, and there were many jackals, tigers and leopards, birds and beasts in Fujian. So he was accustomed to a hunting life, so he picked up a knife and axe and went up the mountain to hunt for a living. Once, he chased a goat all the way south to the vicinity of the South Shaolin Temple in Putian County, and met a South Shaolin disciple who was playing Shaolin sticks. So he began to have great respect for Shaolin martial arts. Jun Li Tiesa was fascinated by it, and under his repeated requests, the Nanan Shaolin disciples taught him the stick method. Junli Tiesa soon learned the stick technique taught by the Shaolin disciple, and the two became friends because of it. Junli Tiesa is talented and smart, he combined his tricks of fighting tigers in the Northeast with the Shaolin stick method, and created a set of Southern Shaolin tiger stick methods. Because the Shaolin disciple was a monk, he didn't care about his secular name, but only said that his ancestor used to be surnamed Lin, and he didn't say much about the rest. Later, Junli Tiesa heard that this Shaolin disciple was abolished by his master and expelled from the Shaolin Temple because he taught martial arts to others without authorization. ”

Youming interrupted and asked, "Mr. Xu, what you are talking about is the birthplace of the Xianbei people's Donghu?"

Xu Guidao: "That's right, it's exactly what the Tang people said about Donghu Xianbei." But the Xianbei people do not call that land Donghu, but Xianbeilia. ”

Yi Dan then asked, "What happened to that Shaolin disciple?"

Xu Gui continued: "Later, Junli Tiesa heard that the Shaolin disciple was abolished from martial arts and expelled from the school, and since then he has been fishing in the sea. He went to look for him, but never ran into him again. ”

Yi Dan said: "It's really a pity, the senior of the county Litisa must be very guilty, right?"

Xu Gui: "Yes, later, in order to find the Shaolin disciple who taught him martial arts, he was expelled from the school. So with his wife, the family moved to Putian County. But throughout his life, he never met the Shaolin disciple surnamed Lin again. ”

Gu Xiaofeng listened carefully, and when he heard this, he began to feel that the story Xu Gui told should be related to himself, so Gu Xiaofeng asked, "What about later?"

Xu Gui said: "Later, the wife of the county Litiesa gave birth to a son for him, and he never thought of returning to Eastern Simbeilia. So I let my son follow his mother's surname 'Xu', that is, my grandfather Xu Zhong. ”

When Xu Gui said this, Yi Dan suddenly realized: "It turns out that Donghu is Mr. Xu's ancestor?"

Xu Guidao: "That's right, my grandfather not only inherited his father's Southern Shaolin Tiger Stick Fighting Method in Litiesa, but also inherited his mother's ability to find herbs and herbs, and became a chivalrous pharmacist who acts chivalrous and saves the wounded." Later, he joined the Quanzhou branch of Tingfengtang, and it was passed on to my father for another four generations. Our family has been passed down from generation to generation, in addition to martial arts and the ability to find herbs and herbs, the story of the Shaolin disciple teaching martial arts has also been passed down intact. ”

Yi Dan asked: "That ancestor of yours must feel guilty that the disciple of Southern Shaolin taught him martial arts, but he was innocently expelled from the sect, so he wants you to remember his kindness for generations, Mr. Xu?"

"That's right, I guess so. But then my father came to Yazhou from Guangzhou to retreat and think about it. He should also have accidentally discovered the person in Gujia Town, Wenchang, who was the descendant of the man surnamed Lin who taught my grandfather Liezu's martial arts in Southern Shaolin. So my father passed on the Southern Shaolin tiger stick method that he never passed on to Xiaofeng Daxia, who was only nine years old at the time. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Gui looked at Gu Xiaofeng's eyes. Gu Xiaofeng asked in surprise: "Is that so? So that's the case? No wonder that the old-timer repeatedly asked me what my surname was." I said my surname was Gu, so he taught me the stick technique. Speaking of this, Gu Xiaofeng suddenly said with a sense of enlightenment: "Oh, I know, it turns out that the old man is Mr. Xu's father?

Xu Guidao: "Xiaofeng doesn't have to be polite. Because the disciples of Nan Shaolin taught the stick method at the beginning, and the innocent was expelled from the South Shaolin, so there was a family motto on the ancestors, and this stick method was not easy to come by, and it will never be passed on. ”

"Your father is really grateful to him for passing on such an important stick method to me. Gu Xiaofeng said.

"Yesterday on the ship, I saw you using this stick, and I thought it was very strange. But I'm afraid that you have something to do with my father's death, so I don't dare to ask easily. When my father taught you martial arts, it should be to repay the Shaolin disciple for his kindness to the ancestors. So you don't have to say thank you to me, it's all as it should be, and we owe it to you. Xu Gui said.

Gu Xiaofeng asked in surprise, "What? Mr. Xu, you said, your father is no longer there?"

"That's right, my father was killed by bad people, and eight years ago, the body of his old man was found in the sea near Shecheng. Xu Gui said.

"Hey, I really didn't expect that Mr. Xu had already left, and I didn't have time to thank him in person. Gu Xiaofeng said regretfully.

"My father taught you martial arts in order to repay the kindness of your ancestors of the Gu family. So Xiaofeng Daxia, you don't have to be too sorry. Xu Gui said.

"Having said that, I still want to thank Senior Xu for his great kindness. If he hadn't taught me the stick technique, maybe I would have suffered a lot of losses. Xiaofeng said.

Yi Dan answered: "Yes, Mr. Xu, how many people in the world will remember the kindness of others more than a hundred years ago? I also admire Lingzun's chivalrous temperament of reciprocating the grace of dripping water. ”

Gu Xiaofeng said: "That's right. Oh, by the way, Mr. Xu, I remembered when you said that. When I was a child, when pirates invaded our town of Gujia, my father once said that if only the martial arts of our ancestors had not been lost, we would not be so bullied. He said that our ancestors had learned martial arts in Southern Shaolin, but unfortunately it was lost later. It's just that I didn't expect there to be such a twist and turn in the story. ”

Xu Guidao: "Yes, so, it's yours after all, it's still yours, although it's been several generations, my father still gave you back the martial arts." He also ended an unfulfilled wish of his ancestors. ”

Youming said: "That's right, but Mr. Xu, how did you know all this?"

Xu Guidao: "Yesterday, when the Gu family worshiped their ancestors, I listened to Xiaofeng's mother in Mingjun Temple tell the story of the Gu family's ancestors and Emperor Taizong. also learned from the fate of my father and Xiaofeng Daxia, so as to reason. Xiaofeng is honest and honest, and his mother is also a simple and kind hard-working people, how can it be related to my father's death? That's why I came to such an inference. Maybe my father was like me back then, and discovered this secret in the ancestral hall of the Gu family and the temple of Mingjun. That's why the stick method was taught to Xiaofeng Daxia. ”

Yi Dan said: "I see, I didn't expect you to have two families, and this long-standing relationship." ”

Xu Gui looked at Gu Xiaofeng and said: "That's right, my grandfather didn't find the man surnamed Lin in Putian, maybe because he didn't know that the people surnamed Lin in Putian had changed their surnames to Gu." He is a man from the northern fishing and hunting tribe, and his mind is simple, how did he know that there would be such a complicated and bizarre story in the surname of the Tang people? So he has been looking for the man surnamed Lin all his life, but he has never found it. ”

When Youming heard this, he arched his hand and said: "I didn't expect that Mr. Xu, your ancestor is also a Xianbei person, and it is really fateful." ”

Xu Gui asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?" Could it be that Brother Youming is also your ancestor?"

Youming said: "That's right, he is also a Donghu Xianbei person on the lower ancestor. ”

Xu Gui's eyes widened and asked, "Really, may I ask which department your ancestor belongs to?"

"Tuoba Department"

Xu Gui thought about it, and suddenly said: "Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty changed Tuoba to Yuan, Brother Youming, you are also surnamed Yuan, isn't it? Oh, it turns out that you are a descendant of the Northern Wei Imperial Family, which is really disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

Youming said: "Don't dare, those are old things of adulthood, and they have nothing to do with me." Mr. Xu, since your ancestors moved south, they have done so many good things for Tingfeng Tang and the world's martial arts for generations, I should admire you. ”

Xu Guidao: "Although my ancestors are Hu people, they have long been integrated with the Tang people. If it weren't for the incident of Xiaofeng Daxia this time, I wouldn't have thought about the fact that my ancestor was a Hu person. ”

Yi Dan added: "Yes, it doesn't matter what Hu Han he is, as long as he is friendly and harmonious, the world is a family, right? Mr. Xu." ”

Xu Guidao: "That's right, it's just that my father was killed by a traitor, and I never found out who the murderer was, I am really ashamed of my father and my ancestors." ”

With that, Xu Gui angrily stomped the iron rod left by his father on the ground in his hand, and the stick happened to stomp into the pile of ashes, making a stiff bang.

Yi Dan noticed that the stick made a very crisp sound and said, "Mr. Xu, what is under this pile of ashes?

Xu Gui was also curious, so he used a stick to remove the ashes that had hardened and grown some grass on the surface. When the pile of ashes was removed, everyone realized that there was a stone slab underneath.

Xu Gui removed the slate and turned it upside down, and found that his father's handwriting was engraved on the slate. He wiped off the earthworm-stained soil on the stone tablet with his hand, and the clear handwriting came into view: "Emperor Zhu Wen of Liang, Feng Quhao was the envoy of the Annan Capital to protect the Jinghai Festival, and let Liu Yin of Lingnan concurrently serve to watch his snipe and mussels fight." Qu Hao Naxian's intention to recruit troops in the Central Plains, please Chongwei to help him, Chongyun. However, Haozi Chengmei did the opposite, wanting to despise the country and the south, and obstruct Wei Fu Hao's hegemony to poison it. The road ahead is uncertain, and this word is left as evidence. Xu Chongwei"

Yi Dan asked, "Mr. Xu, what is this stone tablet carved on?"

Xu Gui looked at the words on the stone tablet and suddenly realized: "I see." This should have been carved by my father before he died, so see for yourself. ”

Yi Dan and You Ming stepped forward to look at the handwriting on the stone tablet. Gu Xiaofeng also stepped forward and asked, "May I ask Sister Yi, what is written on this stone tablet?"

"Brother Xiaofeng, come and take a look. Yi Dan gave Gu Xiaofeng some space so that he could see the stele clearly.

Gu Xiaofeng said with a little ugliness: "I'm sorry, Sister Yi, actually, I don't know how to read, so... This..."

Yi Dan said: "Oh, I'm sorry, then I'll tell you about it." ”

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Okay, thank you Sister Yi"

Yi Dan said: "You're welcome, this stele says that Emperor Zhu Wen of Liang canonized a person named Qu Hao in Annan that year, and was the envoy of Annan to protect the Hejing Navy, and later let Liu Yin of Lingnan concurrently serve these two positions." ”

Gu Xiaofeng asked suspiciously: "Isn't this the same official position, given to two people?"

Yi Dan said: "Yes, Zhu Wen's purpose is to let the two of them compete with each other, so that he can benefit from the fisherman." ”

Gu Xiaofeng said: "This Zhu Wen is too bad, right?"

Yi Dan said: "That's right, but Qu Hao's ambition is not only in Lingnan, but he wants to go north to the Central Plains and dominate the world." ”

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Annan is such a big place, and if you want to plot the world, I'm afraid it's impossible to do it, right?"

Yi Dan said: "So Qu Hao wants to unite all the forces on Qiongya Island, hoping to get their support, and then swallow Qiongya and Lingnan first, and then go north to fight for hegemony." At the beginning, he was recruiting people everywhere, including Mr. Xu's father. Even the senior who taught you the stick method back then also agreed to Qu Hao's invitation to help him. ”

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Oh I see, what about later?"

Yi Dan said: "It's a pity that Qu Hao has a son named Qu Chengmei, he doesn't agree with his father's ambition to plot the Central Plains, but just wants Annan to hang alone overseas and be a little king of the country." So he secretly dismantled the chess game arranged by his father Qu Hao and quietly got rid of his father's people. Senior Xu was poisoned by Qu Chengmei, so he died here..."

Xiaofeng said: "I see, this hateful Qu Chengmei, if you don't do it, you won't do it, why do you want to harm the life of the old man Xu?"

Yi Dan said: "Probably because of his father's resolute attitude, and he didn't dare to do anything to his father, so he could only secretly dismantle his father's chess game and cut off his right-hand man." So that he could sit back and relax and be his king of Jiaozhi in Annam. ”

You Ming said: "Yes, I read that it is recorded in the history books that most of the officials and nobles in Annam are Han people who went south from the Central Plains, so most of the people's hearts think about the north and want to return to the north for reunification." However, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, there were years of chaos, and Annan broke away from the imperial court for a long time and became a secession force hanging overseas alone. Qu Chengmei, who grew up in this environment, will definitely no longer think about unity, but turn to seek independence. Do you think I'm right, Mr. Xu?"

Xu Guidao: "That's right, this hateful Qu Chengmei, it turned out that he sent someone to kill my father." I must break him into pieces to avenge my father's hatred. Speaking of this, Xu Gui gritted his teeth and was resentful.

Yi Dan said: "Mr. Xu, you calm down first, and then make a decision after the matter is clear." What if there's a misunderstanding?"

Xu Guidao: "This matter is already very clear, no matter what, I have to find a way to avenge my father." ”

After that, Xu Gui retreated from the cave, and Yi Dan and the others also walked out of the cave.

Xu Gui covered the door of the cave with thorns, and after kneeling down to the cave, he said: "Dad, don't worry, I will avenge you no matter what", he carried the tiger beating stick left by his father Xu Chongwei, and returned the same way from the direction he came. (To be continued.) )