Chapter 2 The Mystery of Beggar Liu-North School Tomb Raider’s Notes

After checking out early the next morning, our group of four moved on to the Zhao Wang Hotel.

More than ten years ago, Zhao Wang Hotel is considered to be the most upscale hotel in Handan, and now this hotel is still there, but the business is not as good as before.

From the train station to do the city bus, the road is not too far, about an hour or so to the place, I ran to the front desk to inquire, there is a man surnamed Liu live here, trouble you notify just say someone looking for him.

The front desk waitress said sorry, we are not at liberty to divulge information about our guests, you can have them call the front desk.

The head of the handle shook his head and said that he had tried and couldn’t reach Beggar Liu.

“Evergreen Club.” I took a chance and looked at the waitress and carefully said those three words.

The waitress’s face changed, she immediately changed her words and said You wait a moment, I will check it for you.

At that time, the front desk registration has not been popularized computer, are with a very thick black notebook handwritten, including ID card number, name and so on can be written at random, there is no network monitoring that.

The waitress flipped through the registration book for a few minutes and opened her mouth, “Mr. Liu opened an annual card here with us, room 406, but Mr. Liu shouldn’t be in right now, he goes to Nanming River Park for fitness and exercise every morning at 5:30am, and it’s possible that he’ll be back at noon, or he won’t be back for the whole day.”

Thanked the receptionist, we went back to Nanming River Park to find him beggar Liu.

And this time he did find it, but he wasn’t working out in the park for a workout …..

Nanming River Park is the north side of the ticket office, next to the ticket office has a small fitness plaza, beggar Liu sitting in the square chair, wearing a worn and rotten, feet placed in an equally worn enamel teapot, is two hands tucked in the sleeve to doze it….. His enamel tank are fifty cents and ten cents of change, a piece of very little.

Forest big what birds have, beggar Liu certainly have money, and is not the ordinary kind of money, can be in the local most upscale hotel open annual card, I really can not figure out why he did so.

Later I asked the head of the handle and the head told me the reason for it.

In 92, a movie was made called Wu Sheng Yuan Su Begir, which was supposed to be a nonsensical and funny comedy movie, and very few people know the archetypal character behind this story.

Beggar Liu Benjamin Liu Changsheng, his high ancestor grandfather had won the first place in the nineteenth year of the Qianlong martial arts examination, which is also commonly known as the martial arts scholar. At that time, the martial arts scholar’s examination is very difficult, definitely much more difficult than the current civil service examination.

At that time, the examination, the first is the test of horseback riding and archery, the second is the test of skill and courage, and the third is the Wenkao answer questions.

The “Gikyong” includes bow pulling, sword dancing, and weight lifting.

The knives and stones to be danced are divided into three grades, and the bows are also divided into three grades, namely, 80, 100 and 120 (kilograms). There are requirements for the assessment process, namely, “the bow must be opened three times, the knife must be close to the chest in front and behind, and the stone must be one foot from the ground and level with the shoulder”.

Beggar Liu’s grandfather of the high ancestor of the three exams all first, lifting the pick up stone this one is the highest record of 320 kilograms.

After these three passes, it is basically fixed within the martial arts, cultural examination is mean, symbolic two questions test test, but the beggar Liu’s grandfather not only illiterate but also short-tempered, he thought the examiner deliberately make things difficult for him, angry on the spot kick the examiner’s head on the people dry into a concussion, and then he was seized by his ancestor, sat in jail for two years.

So now from the Internet to check the Qing dynasty archives, then, the martial arts scholar is not beggar Liu Gaozu master, but instead of checking is, Qianlong nineteen years A E Section (1754) Wujia first is a called Gu Lin . His high ancestor was originally the first, because a foot to dry people into a concussion, and he was the same period of the second Gu Lin became the first.

He was dried into a concussion of the family is very strong, in order to retaliate, spend money on relations in the prison broke his grandfather’s legs, and later came out of the people also became a cripple. In those years, martial arts people pay attention to the row, his high ancestor from the prison out of martial arts is still in, but because of disability, the days have been bad, and then also fell into the family way to become a beggar.

The turn of events appeared in the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong, this year Qianlong 49 years old, his favorite thing to do is to go down to the south to soak up beautiful women. This year, the waxing moon, Qianlong disguised to go to the Yuan Ze mountain (north of shaoxing area) when suddenly encountered bandits robbery, see the king of a country is going to die in the bandits under the knife, at the moment the roadside bushes suddenly drilled a ragged middle-aged beggar, the beggar, although crippled a leg, but the martial arts, three times five to repel the bandits to save the qianlong.

Qianlong was very grateful to the man afterward, Qianlong said: “You save the great work, want what kind of reward despite say.”