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Chapter 170 You are the Holy Mother of Yellow Lotus?
Ye Ningzhen knew where Sister Hua lived, so she took Chen Zhan and Bai Wu to find her.

After leaving the Bagua Museum, head straight south.

It was already dark, and since they were going the same way, Li Qingsu and Ruan Zhi traveled together.

The night was bleak; although it had been some time since the beginning of spring, the nights in the capital were still very cold.

"By the way, I heard there's a pervert in the West City who specifically kills women in red, and he rapes and murders them. I wonder if he's been caught yet."

"Yes! The nickname they gave him was 'Little Red Coat,' which is quite intimidating."

Ruan Zhi had only been in Beiping for a short time when she heard about this, but she didn't know much about it.

At this moment, she felt less afraid and more excited, because she believed that her skills were not bad and that she wouldn't be targeted by any pervert and unable to fight back.

When she mentioned this, Chen Zhan and Ye Ningzhen also remembered it.

Cheng Yong mentioned last time that their junior sister had been poisoned.

"They haven't caught them yet?" Ye Ningzhen asked incredulously.

Because Cheng Yong said that Wang Xiangzhai was furious and personally took action to catch the murderer. Given Wang Xiangzhai's skills, it has been more than ten days and he still hasn't caught him.
"Big sister, you know about this too?" Li Qingsu asked.

"Yes, I heard that someone at the Wang Family Xingyi Academy was murdered."

"Huh? A woman practicing martial arts?" Ruan Zhi asked, tightening her little cotton coat with red spots.

"He definitely has kung fu skills, but I don't know how high they are. Anyway, you two better watch yourselves and wear black clothes when you go out from now on," Ye Ningzhen said to the two women.

"Um, eldest sister is right."

The two dared not resist and soon arrived near the Eight Great Hutongs, where they went home first.

Chen Zhan told Ye Ningzhen to go back first, as it would be safer for the three of them.

Ye Ningzhen's kung fu has progressed very quickly, and she is not far from reaching the Transformation Realm. With her on guard, there are not many who can sneak attack the three of them.

He took Bai Wu and the little fox to find Sister Hua.

If you walk a little further south, you'll reach a familiar location, which is near Panjiayuan in later years, but is still called Panjiayao now.

In the early years, there were many brick and tile kilns on the east side of the moat of Beiping. One of the kiln owners was surnamed Pan, and his kiln was known as Pan Family Kiln.

Later, a village was formed near the Panjia Kiln site, and the place was named Panjia Kiln after the kiln site.

Until the 1960s, people felt that the word "kiln" was inelegant and changed it to "Panjiayuan".

This area will still be the core area of ​​Beiping a hundred years from now, but it is very remote now.

Tian Jingjie arrived in Beiping ahead of time and rented a large house with a courtyard. It was very cheap, only five silver dollars for half a year. It was a three-section courtyard house with more than ten rooms.

The old and young of the thieves' gang are all housed here.

Tian Jingjie and his grandson were also there.

Sister Hua and Li Yao were overjoyed to see that Bai Wu was alright. Although his injuries hadn't fully healed, they were nothing compared to his life.

The group met and had something to say.

Chen Zhan also entered the room and said, "Master Tian, ​​there's something I need your opinion on."

Seeing the seriousness in Chen Zhan's words, Tian Jingjie and Chen Zhan went inside.

“You said I have nothing I cannot tell others.”

"No, this matter concerns Grandmaster Liu Lanqi. Uncle Cunyi is no longer here, so it depends on your attitude."

Upon hearing this, Tian Jingjie became interested. What could possibly be related to Liu Lanqi?

"Oh?"

You must have been to Beiping before, right?

"That's right, I came here when I was young. It's been so long. Back then, my senior brother Cunyi was still here, and he killed a lot of foreign devils."

Do you know the Simin Martial Arts Club?

Chen Zhan and Tian Jingjie were master and apprentice, and their relationship was one of life-or-death commitment, so there was nothing to hide.

"Yes, it's Senior Brother Geng's boxing club. I joined late and didn't get to know Senior Brother Geng very well, but we were still corresponding ten years ago. However, he has been gone for two years now."

Geng Jishan was a top disciple of Liu Lanqi. He and Li Cunyi were known as the two most outstanding disciples of Liu. He was proficient in Baguazhang and was especially famous for Xingyi spear. He was known in the martial arts world as "Geng the Great Spear with a Pink Face".

"Brother Geng was very famous decades ago, but he didn't care about fame and fortune. After founding the Simin Martial Arts Association, he soon became indifferent to fame and fortune and retired to the countryside."

"Have you encountered one of his descendants?"

Tian Jingjie told him everything she knew without holding anything back.

Chen Zhan gave a brief account of what happened at Jinlou. Tian Jingjie remained silent for a long time, then paced back and forth, his blood rushing to his head, his steps unsteady.

"These kids are insane! They even dare to touch opium!"

“I am the only living direct disciple of Master. I am not very close to Senior Brother Geng, but his disciples are really involved in the opium trade, which harms both themselves and others. According to the rules of the martial arts school, it is no problem for you to clean up the sect.”

"Don't worry, Master Tian, ​​we won't wrong anyone, nor will we let anyone go unpunished," Chen Zhan said coldly.

If the conflict between several forces is merely about making more money and the methods used aren't too underhanded, then it's not so bad.

But for him, getting involved with opium was a death sentence.

No one knows better than him how harmful this stuff is. Countless people have lost their lives to opium. The Opium Wars and the burning of opium at Humen are things that even young children in later generations know about.

When the Martial Arts School was first established, it notified all other schools and sects that this was a deadline.

If you touch it, you'll die.

Therefore, Chen Zhan did not intend to let any of them go.

Tomorrow I'll start by addressing my own internal issues.

Clean up family affairs.

As night fell, Chen Zhan took the little fox and went to sleep there; neither of them were pretentious.

The next morning, Ye Ningzhen came looking for her.

The two went out without anyone else with them.

Head straight to the west side of the city.

There are thirteen large martial arts schools, evenly distributed, each occupying a prime location in Beijing. They seem to have no impact on each other, but in fact, it is the result of mutual compromise.

Because the best locations are occupied by the strongest few companies.

In the capital city, a melting pot of temptations and all sorts of people, young people practicing martial arts may not be able to resist them.

Throughout history, there have been many martial artists who smoked opium.

"If the Four People's Boxing Society is my family matter, then the Yellow Lotus Sect should be your family matter, right?"

As the two walked down the street, Chen Zhan was still in the mood to joke around.

"You also know about the relationship between the Red Lantern Society and the Yellow Lotus Sect?" Ye Ningzhen was a little surprised.

"Of course, it is said that the Boxer Rebellion originated from the White Lotus Sect, and the Red Lanterns were a group of women within the Boxer Rebellion. It is unlikely that this Yellow Lotus Sect has no connection with the Boxer Rebellion at all, right?"

Chen Zhan knew several versions of the origin of the Boxer Rebellion, with the White Lotus sect being the most widely circulated.

Ye Ningzhen didn't deny it, and directly revealed a secret that even Chen Zhan didn't know.

“Do you know why I joined the Red Light Seal? You’ve never asked. I’ve never said much about the Red Light Seal.”

"Um, isn't the red-light police practically defunct now?"

Chen Zhan indeed meant that the Red Lantern Society, like the Boxer Rebellion, had fragmented into various factions, nominally a martial arts alliance, but in reality, each minding their own business.

"After the Boxer Rebellion spread to Tianjin, the Red Lanterns originated there. Their leader at the time, Lin Heier, called herself the Holy Mother of the Yellow Lotus. She claimed to be invulnerable to swords and spears, and immune to water and fire. She used medicine and stones to heal people and talisman water to cure diseases, causing quite a stir. Later, when Tianjin fell, Lin Heier was captured and tortured to death."

"Foreigners wanted to know why she was immune to water and fire, so they made her body into a specimen and transported it to various European countries for exhibition."

"Lin Hei'er is my aunt. She was captured by the Eight-Nation Alliance while protecting my mother from evacuating from Tianjin."

"So, although the Red Lantern Gang has disbanded, I was born a member of the Red Lantern Gang, and I must carry on my aunt's will in this lifetime."

After listening, Chen Zhan nodded: "No wonder you chose to return to Tianjin and risk assassinating Itagaki."

"That's right. When Tianjin fell, it was Ichiro Itagaki who led the Japanese guerrilla force. In thirty years, he rose from a captain to a local minister, and his hands were stained with the blood of countless women in the Red Lantern."

"So you get even more excited than I do when you hear the name of the Yellow Lotus Sect. No wonder Lin Hei'er calls herself the Holy Mother of the Yellow Lotus Sect. This Yellow Lotus Sect is probably related to the Boxers and the Red Lanterns back then."

"Yes, back then, everyone scattered and fled. My mother was also injured, which left her with a chronic illness. She passed away shortly after giving birth to me."

"But surely some people survived, though they seem to have gone astray now," Ye Ningzhen said calmly.

"So you are the true successor of the Yellow Lotus Sect, the Yellow Lotus Holy Mother?" Chen Zhan asked with a smile.

He casually teased her, then said:

“If they go astray, then kill them. We’ve come to the capital to set things right and get to the root of the problem. That’s what we’re here to do.”

Although Chen Zhan did not intend to go on a killing spree, no one should dare to interfere with his handling of matters in the martial arts world.

(End of this chapter)