Unknowingly, a group of students gathered around. Everyone's eyes were bright and curious, as if they were listening to a story.
"What demon sect?"
When these students' grandparents were young, they might have met a martial artist, but the people they met could not be said to be true martial arts people.
Today's young people can only see the shadows of those Jianghu sects from various records.
In this current era, one hundred and fifty-two years have passed since the last prince announced that the catastrophe was officially over and he would not succeed to the throne.
During the period of history when the emperor and the prince's army were still in existence, it was the most prosperous period for martial arts, martial arts, and martial arts families.
At that time, the main force to fight against the disaster was to kill the declining army.
The army of beheaders was mostly selected from Jianghu people, especially disciples of famous sects. Too many people died in those years, people were dying every day. In the end, even the seeds left by the various sects were forced to go to the battlefield.
I don’t know how many sects have fallen apart, and even the sects that have been passed down for many years are often struggling with the loss of inheritance.
After the great catastrophe, the major sects finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, although the great disaster disappeared, the remaining monsters were still there, and there were still many sequelae. After a hundred years of clearing operations, the Ming Dynasty finally gained true peace.
Nowadays, especially in the last forty or fifty years, people have a vague impression of the great disaster, let alone the rivers and lakes that have disappeared in the long river of history?
Nowadays, there are only three or two kittens left among the so-called martial arts people. Most of the sects have lost their inheritance. Those who have not lost their sects have many old disciples. They either blend in with the crowd and have children, just like ordinary people, or they live in seclusion in the mountains. , never to be seen again.
What's right or wrong, what's a famous sect, what's a demonic sect, they all exist in the story.
Only the researchers here at the memorial tower are very familiar with the deeds of those people back then.
"Senior Zhang Jingsong, well, as a member of the Demon Cult, he does things without scruples. In fact, he is not a good person."
"In the Ming Dynasty at that time, the mountains and rivers were broken, the wind was flying, and there were ruins everywhere. The common people had arrived in the new world, but their hearts were still in the turbulent era of disaster. Looking around, there was chaos. There were people who were pretending to be ghosts, and there were people who were cheating. Zhang Jingsong was the same. A big thief."
"He became famous at the age of sixteen. He took a stunning photo of Zhang Jingsong. His dexterity is as smooth as smoke, like a dragonfly touching water, and he leaves no trace on the snow. If he falls in love with the treasure of a wealthy family, he will first give him a maple leaf sticker."
"The maple leaf stickers are very elegant. He is good at painting. Every time he makes a maple leaf sticker, he paints it himself, whether it is a landscape or a picture of a beautiful woman. Now he sells it as a bookmark, and each one costs at least 50 cents. Because of this, Zhang Jingsong It got a common name, called Maple Leaf Red.”
Mu Qingyun nodded. In a few decades, if someone likes such a handmade bookmark, they can sell it at fifty.
"In those days, many wealthy families thought that a maple leaf sticker given by Maple Leaf Red was very elegant."
"He likes to steal what he wants in full view of the public and at a time he has set."
The researchers here at the Memorial Tower probably preferred these flamboyant stories when reading the information. They studied them very carefully, and their eyes lit up when they told them.
"A lot of our wealthy families in Xiong County hate him, but there are also a lot of people who like him. It's really Zhang Jingsong who looked good at that time."
The researcher also took out Zhang Jingsong’s portrait and showed it to everyone.
Cai Pankan glanced over and his face turned red.
Just looking at the portrait, I feel that this man has aged well and is prettier than the male celebrities in the current illustrated magazines. His eyebrows are beautiful, he is as delicate as a girl, and his temperament is as good as frost and snow.
Such a person, even if he is a bad person, will indeed be liked by many people.
"At that time, there was a friend in Xiong County, a young boy of sixteen or seventeen years old, the son of a wealthy businessman. His family was very poor, and most of the shops in the county were owned by his family. They only had this single seedling at home, and it hurt so much. The annual pocket money is enough for an ordinary family to spend a lifetime.”
"He is such a carefree rich man, and at such an age, he is really carefree and free to do whatever he wants. Because he admires Maple Leaf Red, he often spends huge sums of money to buy treasures that will interest Maple Leaf Red, specifically to attract Maple Leaf Red. He stole it."
"Look, there are some old newspapers here."
It is not easy for students to visit the memorial tower. The researchers also like to teach others, so they took out the treasures in their own collections and displayed them.
Mu Qingyun took a closer look and saw that the first one was a newspaper from seventy years ago. The headline on the front page was "Red Maple Leaves and Stealing a Golden Knife on a Snowy Night."
The story is full of ups and downs and very moving. It even describes in detail the process of Yin Ya, the young master of a salt merchant, walking into the warehouse and seeing the red maple leaves floating out like smoke from the seven or eight inch wide ventilation window.
To be able to write in such detail, it must have been said by the rich man himself. Between the lines, there is only novelty and joy, and there is no trace of the frustration of having a stolen treasure.
"Anyway, Young Master Yin likes Maple Leaf Red very much. I heard that he wants to pester him to learn kung fu. However, Maple Leaf Red and Zhang Jingsong are top-notch masters. They are usually very busy and are too lazy to play with children. When they are free, they tease and tease him. , I usually ignore it.”
"Just a few years later, something happened to the Yin family. The old lady of the Yin family celebrated her birthday on that day. I don't know who gave her birthday gift, but there was a kind of magic insect egg hidden in it. At the banquet, the magic insect eggs broke out, and Yin Hundreds of people in the family were infected."
"At that time, the old lady of the Yin family knew some martial arts, had deep internal strength, and still had some remaining sense. She knew that this thing would be contagious. Once spread, the entire Xiong County would not be able to keep it, and it would even lead to more tragic consequences."
"The old lady is knowledgeable and knew that the egg had not yet fully hatched. What she was most afraid of was fire. So she closed the door herself, activated the mechanisms at home, and turned the huge Yin family into a sea of fire."
"When Maple Leaf Red arrived, the entire Yin family had been reduced to scorched earth. He collected the ashes, buried the golden knife he stole from the Yin family, and the silver mask he never left with him as a burial companion for Yin Ya. He did not run away. He waited for the Yamen to catch him, and then joined the Shusei Army. For ten years, he hunted down the remaining monsters everywhere, going wherever there was danger, and then died in Xiong County."
"On our memorial tower, Zhang Jingsong has red maple leaves. Of course he should be famous on the tower."
The researcher looked solemn and felt very bad as he touched the worn words on the stele.
"The ancestors have passed away. No matter what hatred or grudges there are, you should not do such a thing."
The inspectors from the Inspection Department arrived quickly, and almost everyone was filled with indignation.
Mu Qingyun and Cai Pandi were also dragged to give confessions for a long time before they were let out together with the students. (End of chapter)
