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This is the life experience of Zhang Sanye mentioned in Ghost 8:

Zhang Sanye was originally from a famous family. After his family failed, he lived in the countryside since he was a child. When he was young, he participated in solving the case. After a few strange cases, he became famous among the bandits in Jiangnan. Later he became an officer, fought against the Taiping Army, suppressed the Nianzi, and followed Master Zuo to suppress the rebellion in Xinjiang. He has been on the battlefield for a long time. , I often face battles, and have countless adventures in my life.

This shows that the third master was not a prostitute before, but later changed his profession to touch gold.

Look again at the description of Zhang Xiaobian in The Thieving Cat:

He knew that his family was in a backward position and his ancestors had been high officials in the capital

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So it is recommended that they make an exception and first go to the thieves-catching yamen to be a "leader", and then call a group of tolerants with sharp eyesight and quick hands, at any time, at the call of the two of them, who specialize in catching rat monks. A group of comrades.

But now that the Guangdong invaders are causing chaos and the court is recruiting people, you all have some skills, so why bother to fall into mediocrity and rot with the grass and trees in the end. Although there are dragon-slaying swords and eagle-shooting bows in the world, they still need someone to use them

After coming from a famous family, he lived in the countryside since he was a child. When he was young, he participated in solving several strange cases. In the south of the Yangtze River, he suppressed the bandits. He became famous, fought against the Taiping Army, and suppressed the Nianzi. The two are so similar.

Besides, when Ba Chang said he would no longer write about tomb robberies, Ghost 8 had not yet been released, and he deliberately described Mr. Zhang in the last few chapters of Ghost 8, probably just to arouse the interest of lantern fans.

The tomb-turning plot in the first few chapters of Thieving Cat also fully hints at the third in the ranking. There are two sisters who died early. They call themselves Zhang San. I don’t know what the big one is called because they have natural hair. Thin and yellow, when I was fifteen or sixteen years old, I still couldn't keep my braids, so I had to use straw ropes to tie them into a dog-tail-like braid. Everyone who knew him called him "Zhang Xiao braid". He was a country boy in the late Qing Dynasty. The old master in the tomb robbing business hangs three talismans on one person, and Zhang Sanzi, the invincible dragon hunter in the world