I was very strong, and when the torch touched the woman in red, a raging fire instantly ignited.
When the flames disappeared, there was only a puddle of ashes on the ground.
Seeing this, I was finally able to let go of the hanging stone in my heart. At least I was sure that this woman was not something supernatural.
Mu Lingling said: "Do you recognize this?"
"I recognize it."
The pressure in my heart disappeared, and my mood improved a lot. I said, "Do you know how many sects there are in Jianghu? How many sects are there?"
"Aren't they the eight great rivers and lakes of Jing, Tired, Piao, Ce, Feng, Huo, Jue?"
"This is just one of the more common sayings, that is, what people call the Eight Great Rivers and Lakes, also called the Eight Gates." I swept the ashes aside with my kick and continued: "But not only are there the Eight Gates, there are also thieves, The eight gates of Gu, Pin, Qian, Feng, Wu, Xi, and Sha are called the lower eight gates.”
"Ah? So, you are from the Lower Eight Gates." Mu Lingling looked silly and sweet: "Then why does my grandfather want me to have more contact with you."
I was overjoyed, it was a double happiness. Mu Lingling, the eldest granddaughter of a floating family, came to the grave, and her purpose was indeed me.
Finally I was tricked out.
I said: "This is just a name for you upper-class people, or the official name. Among the people, there are eight bright doors, namely gold, leather, color, hanging, flat, tuan, tune and willow, and eight dark doors, bee, hemp, Swallow, sparrow, flower, orchid, kudzu and rong; in fact, no matter what they are called, they are all the same trades over and over again, but the names are different, but the people are still the same group of people."
She said: "It's so complicated. I haven't understood these things before. By the way, among the eight lower sects you just mentioned, do you know about the Gu family? I heard that Xiao Wanfa, a wealthy businessman in Shunde, was bewitched by the old Sun next to you. He was half dead, but you cured him later."
I thought for a while and explained: "I don't know if the Gu sect still has its orthodox branches now, because this sect is full of evil spirits, and there are scenes of corpse exorcism in Hong Kong movies. The corpse exorcism originated from this genre. Yes, the founder of this sect is the military master Chi You, who is one of the best in the entire Jianghu sect. Unfortunately, due to the small number of people, the orthodoxy of this sect particularly requires talent, so it disappeared after the founding of the country, and there are some remaining forces. It is absorbed by the robbers, which is why the Southern sect is good at placing poison in tombs among the robbers. This is what they do in their profession."
"What about the pin door?"
"During the Republic of China, it was called Jimen Gate. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was renamed Shenji Gate. Many schools had their names changed after the founding of the People's Republic of China. You are young and don't know how normal it is."
When I mentioned Shenjimen, I suddenly thought of Old Man Gao from Shunde. I haven’t seen him for a while. This time when I go back, I have to seek advice from him.
She said: "I know the Qianmen, I also know the Fengmen, which is the Goulan Gate now, right?"
I nodded and said yes, Qianmen is also called Qianmen, the founder is Fuxi, and Miaohong is a very good person. It’s a pity that Qianmen people don’t follow the rules and have completed Qianmen by themselves. Fengmen is nothing. That’s easy to say! The killing sect is today's life-killing sect, and that's about it. The one worth mentioning here is the witch sect. This sect originated in the Northeast. It is the legendary dancing master who uses incense as a medium to communicate with mountain spirits and ghosts. Inviting these mountain spirits and ghosts to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases, the Wumen originally wanted to join Kumen as a witch doctor, but Kumen refused. After that, they became unique in the Northeast.
Not to mention, it makes it look like the same thing.
After speaking in a circle, she was not as scared as before and became much more courageous.
In fact, this is also my special skill in the world, also called the art of speaking. In the old society, there was a group of people in the world who were talkers, people who deceived people. They could deceive people into black, live into death. Although the words don't sound good, they are just trying to highlight the other person's speaking skills.
For this reason, I changed the subject and said something else to her, just to dispel the fear in her heart.
After going around in a circle, she said: "Then that just now..."
"Do you still remember the eight folk civilizations I just mentioned?"
"Remember."
"This is Caimen's unique skill, and it is also the Ximen in Xiabamen. It's just that different people call it differently. Ximen does not mean acting, but magic tricks."
"A magician?"
"Absolutely, but that's what they call it in the West." I thought about it and gave a pertinent reply: "We in the world generally call it blind magic or illusion. The illusion we encountered behind Jiraishi is the name of the theater. Hands-on, I was also led astray at the time, thinking that it was really some supernatural phenomenon that affected our brain waves."
"Then why in our Piaomen records, the records about opera singers, storytellers, and cross talk actors are the ones?"
"That's because the theater sect was wiped out in the late Qing Dynasty."
"why?"
"Because there is a trick in the theater that is too shocking. If the people believe it, it will be difficult for those in power to control the people. This trick is called the Immortal Cable."
"I think I saw it in a movie. In it, an old man seemed to bring people along."
"Yes, it was a trick used by the old man in it, but in the Tang Dynasty, the person who used this blind trick was a woman in red whose nickname was Red Handkerchief. The red dress was not her name, but her nickname. This I also heard the story told to me by a senior, saying that this woman had the illusion of reaching the sky. When she was performing on the street, she took a hemp rope and held it in her hand. When she shook her hand, the hemp rope stood straight on the ground like a bamboo pole. One end was so high that it was nowhere to be seen, and then she climbed up along the hemp rope. The rope was extremely long. It was difficult to see the end. The onlookers around saw that she did not come down for a long time after going up. The boldest person was Lanagan. Unexpectedly, the hemp rope on the ground collapsed when touched, and the person who climbed to the top of the rope disappeared."
I just finished.
Mu Lingling said: "This method is recorded in our sect's archives, but it has been lost for hundreds of years. It is said that this thing can travel thousands of miles in a day. If everyone can learn this method when marching and fighting, wouldn't they be invincible on the battlefield? ?”
"You are absolutely right. This is the reason why theater was wiped out in the late Qing Dynasty. Moreover, this trick also has a very popular name. What do you think it is called?"
"Walking a Thousand Miles a Day?"
"No, you can think about mythology."
"Myth? Somersault cloud?"
"It was close, but not right."
She shook her head: "Then I don't know."
I said: "During the Conferred God Period, the Twelve Golden Immortals of Yuxu Palace were taken into the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and cut off the three flowers on their tops to eliminate the five qi in their chests. They were later rescued by Yuanshi Tianzun, who taught them a technique. Do you remember your name?"
She patted her head and said: "Intimidate the Earth's Golden Light Technique?"
