Chapter 205 Advance and retreat with honor and disgrace
"I heard about Mr. Gu San from an overseas Guihongmen. As for me, I came to visit Mr. Gu San, I also wanted to find the Guihongmen organization so that I could help each other in the future... By the way, this is also the explanation of my master before his death." Li Yu said half-truth.
Chen Yilin sighed and said, "Help each other? Oh, there is no Guihongmen now, and who can help you? I guess there are only a few people in the country who know about Guihongmen except for old people like me. When our generation is dead, Guihongmen will probably disappear completely."
"Why can't Guihong Gate be built again?" Li Yu asked.
"Rebuild Guihongmen?" Chen Yilin said, "How to build it? What does Guihongmen do? I believe your master has told you that it is a legal society now. What else can an organization like Guihongmen be of use? If you don't do it well, the police would think that we want to do some * activities, which is a serious crime."
Li Yu asked: "Old Chen, have you never contacted other Guihongmen people for so many years? As far as I know, Gu Sanye was the contact person of Guihongmen in Qihua. He should have a national contact map in his hand, and he should also have a situation of Guihong disciples of Qihua. Has he never contacted these people?"
Chen Yilin hesitated for a moment and said, "This matter is actually not a secret, and it's okay to tell you. When the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guihongmen activities were quite frequent, and we often had people coming and going. However, when we met the anti-revolutionaries, many Guihongmen people had connections with those sects and were arrested. After that, Guihongmen activities became less and less, and many old friends dared not contact us anymore."
The suppression of rebellion by Chen Yilin refers to the great movement at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. At that time, the society was mixed with good and bad. In order to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, the newly established regime took relatively tough measures and severely cracked down on and banned a number of "society sects". Guihongmen was originally both good and evil. Although he never did anything that harmed the law, some unconventional ways of acting were obviously contrary to the requirements of the legal society, and therefore it was quite impacted.
According to Chen Yilin, the leader of Guihongmen of Qihua's Guihongmen took in several spies out of his loyalty, so he was imprisoned for more than ten years as a spy and died in prison. After this person was imprisoned, the members of Guihongmen of Qihua's branch dispersed as birds and beasts. As a liaison officer, Gu Sanye has been operating behind the scenes and has not been implicated. He kept his oath when he accepted the task and stayed on this friendship street for decades, waiting for someone to come to contact. When he was dying, he passed the task to his daughter and son-in-law, asking them to swear to keep their inn and not give up.
"You've kept guarding?" Li Yu asked in surprise.
Chen Yilin smiled bitterly and said, "What's the solution? This is the old man's last wish. I am an orphan, not the old man took me in, and even recruited me as a son-in-law. How could I do today? I wonder, what's not to make a living? The inn left by the old man is enough for my family to live, so I will stay here for the sake of helping the old man fulfill a wish. When I die one day, the mission will be settled."
So that's the case, Li Yu understood a little. It seems that Mr. Gu is indeed loyal and commendable. He knows that Guihongmen has declined, but he still sticks here. Because the task he accepted was to build an inn as a cover, he has always run an inn and has not changed the industry. As for Chen Yilin's hands, changing the inn into a fast hotel, it can be considered as keeping pace with the times.
"Old Chen, you have never contacted anyone from Guihongmen for so many years?" Li Yu asked.
"You can't say that," Chen Yilin said. "Some years ago, when my father-in-law was still alive, he had communication with some friends from other places. Occasionally, everyone would gather together to send some money to friends who were in trouble in life. After his father-in-law passed away, his old friends also passed away one after another. We nephews didn't have much contact, and our families had different situations and were not speculative, so we gradually stopped contacting each other."
"I understand." Li Yu said, "Old Chen, do you have any other way to contact the descendants of Guihongmen in other places?"
"What are you going to do?" Chen Yilin said in surprise.
Li Yu said: "I want to visit them."
Chen Yilin asked: "Why?"
Li Yu said: "Guihongmen has experienced 2,000 years, and has suffered many disasters during this period, almost endless disasters, but they have all persevered. In the hands of our generation, if it dies like this, what will we look like to meet the predecessors of all generations in the future? I want to find the descendants of Guihongmen and see how many of them are willing to rebuild Guihongmen. I want to restore the glory of Guihongmen again."
"Young man, your heart is too big, right?" Chen Yilin said, "I don't know much about Guihongmen. I've heard about my father-in-law. He did say that Guihongmen has a history of 2,000 years, but that's already history. Guihongmen is a so-called assassin organization. In an era of uncontrollable conditions, such a thing as avenging revenge is not important. Now it is a legal society, and you still have to rebuild Guihongmen. What do you want Guihongmen to do?"
Li Yu said: "Times have changed, and the things that were aroused and revenge in the past cannot be done again. But the chivalrous spirit of Guihongmen will never be outdated at any time. There is no unfairness or ugliness in our era today? It is still possible to eliminate traitors with a sword. Also, Guihongmen has had deeds in fighting against foreign enemies in all dynasties. Today, the country still has enemies, so it is always possible to fight against the enemy together, right?"
"For this reason alone, I'm afraid it's difficult to unite everyone, right?" Chen Yilin said.
"I don't believe that young people today are not passionate." Li Yu smiled.
"I admit that there will definitely be passionate men." Chen Yilin said, "But, in addition to passionateness, everyone also needs to eat, dress and live, right? Can you let everyone abandon their professions and do what to do with you to eliminate violence and protect the good and do the good for heaven?"
"This is another point I want to say." Li Yu said, "I want to rebuild Guihongmen. In addition to trying to succeed to heaven, I also want to help Guihongmen people solve some real difficulties. A person's power is always limited, but if we can combine the power of thousands and tens of thousands of people distributed across the country, and advance and retreat together with honor and disgrace, will everyone's power be enhanced?"
"Do you think you can do it?" Chen Yilin asked suspiciously.
"It's up to people." Li Yu replied confidently.
Although Chen Yilin was a descendant of Guihongmen, he never participated in Guihongmen activities and did not know the value of an organization. Li Yu came in a chaotic era, and he knew very well what kind of benefits a sect could bring to its members.
After this era, Li Yu had made a small world with his own abilities, but the more things he came into contact with, the more he felt that there was no flaw in the organization. When he encountered anything, he could only fight alone, and a Hechanlin could make him feel a great threat. If he retreated 400 years, the gangster leader in a small place like Hechanlin would not have the capital to be rampant in front of disciples of major sects like Li Yu.
Li Yu accepted Ou Liwen's invitation and joined the secret front, and wanted to find a backer for himself. But he found that this backer was tough enough, but his flexibility was too poor. He had to be principled in everything, which was far less likely to do as he would in gangs like Guihongmen.
If Li Yu had not found the other people in Guihongmen without the contact map provided by Zhu Chun'an, he might not have found this. But after getting the contact map, the * who rebuilt Guihongmen in his heart spread uncontrollably like a weed. He had thought about it and did everything possible to organize the people in Guihongmen again, rebuild this sect, echo each other, and form a force that no one dared to underestimate.
Of course, what he said to Chen Yilin at the beginning was not a false statement. In his opinion, Guihongmen has not disappeared for 2,000 years. If it dies under his nose, he will be in a shameless way to meet Han Zhi.
As an ancient man who has been in the Ming Dynasty, Li Yu was somewhat superstitious. He felt that such a strange thing that could have happened to him through 400 years of time and space, probably because God wanted him to take on a great responsibility. With his understanding, such a great responsibility must be to revive the Hongmen and let the organization that has disappeared for more than 60 years shine again.
Hearing Li Yu's words, Chen Yilin remained silent for a long time and fell into deep thought. Although he opened this fast hotel, it was certain that he had fulfilled his father-in-law's long-cherished wish, making a living in a hotel was also an important reason, or the most important reason. Over the years, he has suffered a lot of cowardly aroused by all kinds of cowards. Whether it is the black skin on the street or some borers in the government, he often comes to the hotel to blackmail. Because he has no backer, he can only laugh and slap.
He remembered that his father-in-law had told him in the past that if Guihongmen were still there, these ghosts and monsters would not dare to be so arrogant. He regarded his father-in-law's words as a joke and never took them seriously, because he felt that Guihongmen could not make a comeback. However, the young man in front of him pointed out a direction for him and saw a glimmer of hope.
Yes, if we can organize Guihongmen people across the country, exchange resources and rely on each other, wouldn’t we no longer be alone?
"Li Yu, do you take it seriously?" Chen Yilin asked.
"Of course it's serious." Li Yu said.
"So, what do you need me to do?"
Chapter completed!