Mysterious Martial Arts: The Record of the Swordsman

Chapter 163

After walking out of the Beidi Temple, Jiang Wen was still thinking about it, and found that most of his doubts came from the jade huang in his hand.

Regarding the origin of the jade huang with the pan-boa pattern, although Li Xinghe kept it very secretive, it seemed that he just dug up an ancient tomb by mistake and obtained this treasure from it.But the so-called geomantic treasures in Guangzhou are so rare, and there must be such a unique situation as the stone veins entering the cave, and it is even more necessary to be able to hide this treasure of Qin and Han Dynasties with strange and complicated patterns.

After combining several factors, what Jiang Wen immediately thought of was the tomb of the second generation Nanyue King Zhao Xuan in the Xianggang Mountains in the north of Guangzhou City, which should have been discovered by accident in the 80s. .

Judging from the location, the tomb of the second generation of Nanyue kings in Xianggang is located in the northwest corner of Panyu City. One, it is obviously also in line with the secrecy of Shang Kexi sending people to find the geomantic treasure land.

It's a pity that Jiang Wen still doesn't know how much has been excavated inside.This tomb is hidden more than 20 meters deep in the heart of Xianggang Mountain, including precious cultural relics such as the "Wendi Xingxi" gold seal, "Zhao Zhen" jade seal, and jade horn cups. Don't fall into the hands of these gangsters!

This is not Jiang Wen's inexplicable unfounded worry. If the tomb treasures are excavated in advance, the cultural relics may be completely destroyed and lost. Shang Kexi suddenly went crazy and wanted to dig the tomb to show his clumsiness. plan.

In this way, wouldn't he be indirectly the culprit?

Fang Xinru's "Baiyong of the South China Sea" in the Song Dynasty once quoted Shen Huaiyuan's "Guangzhou Records" from the Liu Song Dynasty as saying: "During the time of Sun Quan, most of the tombs of Tuo were sacrificed with exotic treasures, and thousands of soldiers were sent to search for the tomb. Unable to get it. The next time I excavated the tomb of Yingying Qi, I got the jade seal, gold seal, and bronze sword. But Tuo’s tomb was unknown, and Tuo died at the beginning of Emperor Wu. It can’t be found by digging, and it’s been thousands of years, and it’s hard to test.”

If this information is credible, then the tomb of Yingqi, the three masters of Nanyue Kingdom, had already been excavated by Sun Quan, but none of the treasures in the tomb have been handed down to the world. In the end, there is a high probability that it will become dust and rubble after being trampled by soldiers in the long river of history. I have to make people sigh, I am afraid that the tomb of Nanyue King Zhao Sui will follow in the footsteps by accident.

Jiang Wen was thinking wildly, but Yuan Ziyi was in high spirits at this time, and the joy of defeating the wicked was accompanied by the wind blowing in the river. He felt that the lump in his chest was gradually disappearing, and he just wanted to find his sister Yan Yongchun and talk about his deeds in the past few days.

"My elders, where do you live? I will escort you back home. No one will dare to bully you again!"

She made a generous promise to the Danmin, but only in exchange for the sad-looking Danmin to sigh repeatedly, which made Yuan Ziyi full of doubts, why they didn't seem to be happy to be rescued.

After a long time, the Danmin explained hesitantly that they were Danmin from Hepu, they were hunted and captured by the Shang family a few days ago, the ships they depended on for home had been scuttled, and Hepu was even more heavily attacked, and they wanted to come here Sometimes I can't go anywhere.

Yuan Ziyi came all the way from the middle of Sichuan, and only stopped in Guangzhou. Naturally, he didn't know the meaning of the identities of these Danmin, let alone what the difficulties in the mouth of the Danmin were. However, Jiang Wen came from Fuzhou, so he was naturally aware of these people all over Fujian and Guangdong. The special group of people will have a little more understanding.

As early as the Song Dynasty, these Dan people had many names. According to Liang Kejia's "Three Mountains" in the Song Dynasty: "Baishui River, one hundred and seventy miles northeast of Jiuji (Houguan) County, also known as Baishui Langyihu in "Huanyu Ji" Yachts, or Lu Xunyu, live scattered in the sea."

The so-called Sun Enlu Xunyu Zhong is a genus of pirates who were expelled to the sea during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There is also a view that the Danmin are descendants of the Minyue people who were destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, or that they were born after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty to avoid revenge from the Han people. The descendants of the Mongols who went into the water, and even the remaining tribes of Chen Youliang who were defeated and went into the water in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

There are so many legends, and the evidence is illusory, but they all point to some not-so-glorious, dark identities with original sins, so that although the Danmin groups have lived by water and can be seen everywhere for thousands of years, they are always suffering from all kinds of evil. All kinds of discrimination and humiliation, and being plundered and enslaved by those in power have become a norm.

According to Jiang Wen, who has the knowledge of later generations, these seemingly secret and unbearable identities are nothing but the subconscious demonization of the minority by the main ethnic group, which is no different from the contradictions of the natives in Fujian and Guangdong.The difference between the Han people and the Hu people is that culture is more important than blood. The so-called Dan people should be just a group of original ethnic groups with unique culture, and mixed with homeless people from the Han people who migrated southward in the past dynasties, and finally formed a group of special people. group.

Today, even though they still retain their unique characteristics such as living in water, living in boats, adoring snakes, and worshiping Baiyue ancestors, the Dan people are just a water group different from the land-dwelling Han, and a subgroup of the Han.

But these things are particularly unacceptable to the deep-rooted traditional concepts, unless the Dan people already have the capital to discriminate against ordinary people.

In Jiajing's "Guangdong Tongzhi", it is mentioned that some Dan people "have become more and more knowledgeable in recent years" and "some of them have obtained academic degrees".In this regard, Yuan Ziyi's family, Yuan Chonghuan, who was murdered more than ten years ago, is probably a typical example.

Yuan's family has been selling wood in Xijiang for several generations. His hometown is actually the waterside of Dongjiang, but he was not accepted by the Yuan family who had settled there. In order to take part in the imperial examination, he had to go to Guangxi, where his family ran a timber trade. Fuji County fake membership exam.

Later, Yuan Chonghuan built the Temple of the Three Realms related to the worship of snakes by the Danmin along the Dongjiang River where a large number of floating populations gathered. Jinshi was promoted from magistrate to minister of the Ministry of war, so people will forget his humble family background.

After listening to Dan Min's narration and Jiang Wen's supplement, Yuan Ziyi's expression gradually became serious, as if he also felt the difficulty of the matter.

"That would be a surefire solution..."

Then he looked at Jiang Wen eagerly.

Jiang Wen quickly raised his head to look at Jiang Tian, ​​who was in the dusk, his eyes were flying everywhere, but he didn't make contact with Yuan Ziyi, who was full of eyes, saying that you boasted Haikou just now, and it has nothing to do with me.

"Master Jiang, you can't bear to see their family die tragically in the weeds, reduced to a bed of bones, right?"

Jiang Wen smiled helplessly, he knew this would happen a long time ago, young chivalrous men and women are always so passionate about fighting for justice for 3 minutes, and the old Jianghu, who is old in accidents, will think more about such things.

For example, after Huang Zhen of the Huashan School offended the Qixian School, he knew how to ask his disciples to take 100 taels of silver to the farmhouse where he stayed overnight, and told them to move overnight.After all, people in the Jianghu are often ignorant of etiquette and morality, and when they are helpless against a strong enemy, they will naturally vent their anger on others, and they will definitely go to that farmer's house to make things difficult for them.

Now that the dozen or so Dan people rescued are all the poorest people on the water, illiterate and unaccompanied, Jiang Wen can't pat his buttocks and leave after receiving flowers and applause, leaving them with even crueler and worse revenge.

Yuan Ziyi is still a little naive, so she needs to be stimulated a little more.

"Girl in purple, you'd better stay out of this matter. I'll take them to try their luck."

Jiang Wen first took the Dan people to various martial arts gyms in Foshan to find out where these poor people could be taken in.

Today's Foshan is known as the "Four Famous Towns" together with Hankou Town in Hubei, JDZ in Jiangxi, and Zhuxian Town in Henan. The four major industries of ceramics, textiles, casting, and medicine are prosperous in southern China, and the style of martial arts is also unusual. Foshan Town There are row upon row of martial arts halls in the village, and they also take care of warehouses, bidders, nurses, and giving away many businesses, but they have not yet formed the appearance of a strict family in later generations.

At this time, the signboards on this Martial Arts Street are all expressing their hearts, like selling goods, they write their own martial arts schools, and they are so dense that they can't wait to write out all the moves.

At first glance, Jiang Wen and his party have Song Taizu Boxing 36 styles, Wuhu Xiaxichuan Boxing 24 styles, Molingguan Da Hantong Zhangquan Six-way, Four-way South Boxing, Nine-way North Boxing, Six-way Xijia Boxing, Wenjia Gouhang Boxing, etc. And so on, the more popular ones are the Weapons Martial Art Museum, which is full of 31 schools of stick techniques, [-] schools of marksmanship, and [-] schools of sword techniques.

These martial arts coaches were quite polite when they saw Jiang Wen coming to the door under the banner, but when they saw the Danmin appearing, they shook their heads again and again, as if they saw the god of plague, and almost shook their brains.

"Sect Leader Jiang really has the style of a benevolent gentleman in ancient times. He dared to be the first to help the poor and the poor. Zhang admired him very much. He wished he could also advocate righteousness."

The instructor of Mianzhang bunt and Jiang Wen exchanged two palms, and they were already admiring, but they were still unwilling to take in these Dan people.

"We here in Foshan are tolerant and inclusive, all in response to Qi Shaobao's righteousness to fight against the Japanese, and he should have been chivalrous first to save people from fire and water, but these Dan people really can't do it, I hope you will forgive me..."

Fortunately, these martial arts sects were at odds with the Feng Family's Five Tigers. Jiang Wen took Dan Min down a street, but he didn't find anyone from the Five Tigers coming to disturb him.

Jianghu came to the beggar's nest in Foshan Town with Yuan Ziyi and the Danmin who were burning with anger, and Jiang Wen wanted to ask them if they could take in these poor people.

His original intention was not to turn the Dan people into beggars, but to use their identity as beggars to cover up, sneak into other places and wait for the limelight to pass before finding a better place to resettle them.

But the beggar in charge was in a dilemma for a long time, and he didn't even nod his head to accept the meaning of these Danmin. His eyes were filled with seven points of helplessness and three points of contempt, and he crossed his hands and tilted his head to look at the Dan people. As if to see something.

"My lord, these are Dan people..."

Dan people take boats as their home, live on the water, and struggle all day long in the wind, rain and scorching sun, so their body and appearance are different from ordinary people. Everyone has a strong body and a black face.

Not only that, but the beggars with dysentery can also see at a glance that they have lived on the boat for generations, the wind and waves are strong, the cabin is narrow, and the characteristics of deformed legs and feet caused by sitting cross-legged for a long time are the characteristics that good fishermen will not have. After thinking for a long time, they reluctantly opened their mouth Said.

"My lord, I can't be the master of this matter, otherwise you should ask our leader... If you really want to accept Danmin, you really dare not break the rules..."

Jiang Wen patiently inquired about the news again, only to find that the situation of these Dan people was even worse than he had imagined.

The beggar introduced embarrassingly. First of all, in terms of clothes, these people wear clothes that are different from ordinary people. They are usually black or blue tattered clothes. Even good clothes are not pure colors, but Cut it into pieces and sew it together with a few pieces of monochromatic cloth - such clothes are not worn by decent people. It is said that the purpose of doing this is also to prevent the clothes from being snatched.

And clothes being robbed in broad daylight is just an insignificant part of the Danmin tragedy.

These Dan people have no status and are not even allowed to go ashore. Once they go ashore, they will be beaten or robbed of their clothes. Therefore, they have no chance to become beggars or receive alms. If they want to beg for food, their bowls will be broken.

The men of the Dan people drift between the rivers and seas. Once a storm occurs, they often capsize and die, causing the family to lose their main force.At this time, no matter how strong a woman is, she can't do anything, and sometimes she can only become a prostitute.

The more realistic problem facing the beggars is that once their acceptance of Danmin is discovered, they may not even have food, and eventually the whole group of beggars will be beaten into Danmin and bullied together.

"Good man, I shouldn't embarrass you, I just need to be kind..."

The adults among the Dan people smiled wryly, and pushed out a few ignorant children from the crowd.These children are dirty, and because it is inconvenient to make a fire on the water, they can only eat raw river fish, so their bodies are very thin, and there are many lice on their heads.

"Just accept our children as beggars. They are still young and can't see the appearance of crooked hooves. After a few years of raising them, no one will know. We will die when we die, and we can only pity these children..."

Several Danmin old people were also crying and didn't speak, hugging their children and not letting go. Only when the children asked their adults where they were going in Danjia dialect, the old people hugged each other tightly and said, "Go beg for food and live a good life." , just like we go to the city to beg for food during the Chinese New Year, and there will be endless good things to eat in the future..."

Yuan Ziyi frowned and asked Danmin what these words meant.

Several adults told them that if the whole family was forced to go hungry without any catch at sunrise, they would let the old man take the children to venture ashore to beg for food. .

As soon as the words fell, Yuan Ziyi's hand had already grasped the silver soft whip again, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and the beggar was so frightened that he retreated again and again.

"Stop talking, my heart is about to break."

Jiang Wen saw that Yuan Ziyi was in a violent mental shock again, and hurriedly led the Danmin out of the beggar's den, restraining the further spread of separation anxiety.

"Girl in purple, there are too many ups and downs in this world. Even if you are hot-blooded, don't get angry with these beggars. You can't count on people who have a mouthful of food. You have to stand up and help the poor."

Yuan Ziyi was taken aback suddenly when he heard the words, and his whole body went limp like frost.

Jiang Wen told Yuan Ziyi that the best way to resettle these Dan people might be to buy several boats for them to settle down and send them adrift on the rough ocean, where men and women get married and children are born. , the old man died on it after going through untold hardships, and lived the fate they should have.

But they only had 30 taels of silver and an inconvenient antique on their bodies, and they couldn't throw themselves into a trap and bring people back to Guangzhou to get the money.Now that the troubled times have just passed, an ordinary small boat costs 30 taels, and they can't afford these fees.

Yuan Ziyi just thought it was ridiculous that two knights of the rivers and lakes were actually calculating money and goods on the street, and they were dying for tens of hundreds of taels of silver, and they felt panicked.

"Go away! Where did Hanako come from!"

Suddenly, there was a vicious sound at the gate of a big mansion. Yuan Ziyi glanced at the Danmin who were walking timidly on the street, and an unknown fire surged into his heart again. He knew that he was being driven away as a refugee, so he didn't say anything So he whipped the whip, and the whipping turned several ferocious servants into gourds.

Jiang Wen looked at her actions with folded arms, and didn't intend to stop them. People in the Jianghu are not restrained in their actions. Fighting in the street is simply not normal. As long as it is not Danmin who hurt people, no one will take it seriously.

"The girl in purple is more gentle. Take a closer look, this five-entry mansion is the Feng family. If you become the eldest lady of the Feng family, how much money you want, won't the problem be solved?"

The wine and meat of the Zhumen stinks, the roads are frozen to death, and the Feng family in the high-walled courtyard and the displaced Dan people are put together. It is simply the most absurd painting. As Jiang Wen's ridicule spread to Yuan Ziyi's ears, Yuan Ziyi instantly became excited again. aroused her anger.

"Hmph, I'm going to tear down Feng's house right now, and grab all the ill-gotten gains and distribute them to the poor! Heaven's heart is not enough to make up for it, and I will make them not even beggars!"

For some reason, Jiang Wen seemed to have a little bit of approval in the eyes of the person looking at Yuan Ziyi, but he stretched out his hand to stop Yuan Ziyi, shaking his head slowly.

Jiang Wen said with a slight smile: "Don't be so impulsive, you can't save the Danmin by doing this, and you may even kill them. Think about whether the Shang family will take revenge on the Danmin even more crazily if they know this, and kill them bloody How about flowing into a river to intimidate others?"

Yuan Ziyi asked unconvinced: "This is not okay, and that is not okay. Do you just watch them have nowhere to go? If Sister Yan was here, she would definitely not sit idly by!"

Hearing Yuan Ziyi mention Yan Yongchun, Jiang Wen's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I have a solution."

Jiang Wen slapped his palms together, and instantly thought of a solution, "Isn't Miss Yan in Zhangqiugang Village? There are few people there now, and every family wears mourning. Let's hide the Danmin there first."

Yuan Ziyi said a little puzzled: "It is possible to go there in the past, but the distance between the two places is more than a hundred miles, we can't all go there with fast horses, can we?"

Jiang Wen laughed loudly, weighed the money in his hand, and passed Yuan Ziyi in a flash.

"It's unrealistic to buy a boat for 30 taels of silver, but isn't it more than enough to rent a big boat to carry people? If you go down the river from here, you'll arrive at Miss Yan's side in half a day. No one will have trouble with the silver, right? ?”

Yuan Ziyi thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this was really the case. He was immersed in the thought of completing his work just now, and he didn't seem to take the idea of ​​long-term considerations to heart at all.

"Well, you're right."

"As a senior, I always have some life experiences that I can tell you."

Seeing Yuan Ziyi reluctantly admit defeat, Jiang Wencai said with a smile: "I told you a long time ago, practicing martial arts can't save the world, and being a young lady of the Feng family can't save yourself. You are standing or kneeling in this world." , Whether you are sad or happy, ultimately depends on your actions to decide."

A smile appeared on Yuan Ziyi's face, and he finally let go of the troubled problems of Danmin.I saw the dimple on her left cheek was slightly dimpled, she withdrew from Jiang Wenyun's misty truth, and asked directly.

"Then I would like to ask Senior Jiang, who has a heart for the world, you tell this to me, a weak girl, and you play chivalrous games with me, what do you mean by your actions and intentions?"

Jiang Wenwen flicked his Taoist robe and tried his best to pretend to be a fairy, completely ignoring Yuan Ziyi's playful attitude, and took the lead towards the boatman moored along the river.

"Whether it's the world or yourself, as long as this fish cares. I just think it may be necessary to take a leisurely move in the midst of a busy schedule."

(End of this chapter)