Why can Master Laojiu see Long Mai?
Qi Tiezui is a strange man in the next three doors.
The Huo family and the harmonic family are both big families, mainly making handicap. From Mengdong to Lingnan, both schools are influential, but Qi Tiezui took the completely opposite route. From then on, he had only one handicap, which was a fortune-telling stall in Changsha Old Tea Camp.
This fortune-telling booth is located deep in a corridor, followed by a small incense hall, which is dedicated to giving people visas and telling fortune at the same time. If you have goods to take, pay sixpence and the fortune teller will take you to the inner hall. There is a hall in the back, full of treasures.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of small handicap is easy to be eliminated, but it happened that Qijia's handicap has been opened for several generations, and the business has been very prosperous.
Qi Tiezui comes from the novel Tomb-robbing Notes written by Nanpai's three uncles, which is specifically introduced in Wu Xie's Personal Notes and Old Nine Gates. Laojiumen is the eighth door, with three subsidiary doors.
In the original work, the old nine gates include:
The last three dishes: Zhang Qishan (Buddha Zhang), February Red, Ban Mei.
Ping Sanmen: Chen Pi A Si, Wu Laogou (the grandfather of the protagonist Wu Xie), Hebei Lao Liu.
The next three stages include: Huo Xiangu, Qi Tiezui and kuya.