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(Background) Wen Xiuniang was born into a wealthy family. Her parents were members of the Donglin Party. Because the Donglin Party members were killed by eunuchs, both of her parents died. Although Xiuniang escaped this disaster, she has been living in the world since then. She took the child of a servant she grew up with, a slightly stupid younger brother Shi Dun, and began her wandering life. She and Shi Dun worked as child laborers in an inn until adulthood. The owner of the inn suddenly died. Before his death, he gave the inn and all his savings to the two young people. Xiuniang and Shidun converted the inn into a pawn shop and prepared to collect magical weapons from the world of martial arts, hoping that one day someone would revolt and help eliminate the eunuchs.
(Text) Due to the severe shortage of manpower, Xiu Niang decided to recruit people. She recruited two assistants named Xiaocai Gen and Shi Daquan. They were responsible for receiving customers and "identifying goods" respectively, while Shi Dun, who was strong and strong, was responsible for inspecting goods, and Xiu Niang herself became the boss behind the scenes and was responsible for payment. These four people started a business of collecting rare martial arts artifacts from all over the world. In order to balance their books, when funds were extremely scarce, they also adopted the method of selling low and buying high to sell some weapons.
They successively collected magical weapons such as the Longyuan Sword, the Eyebrow Ruler, and the Purple Light Mace, and the process of collecting them was all twists and turns, bizarre, and thrilling.
Later, the righteous people in the martial arts gathered under the secret order of Chongzhen and established the Heroes Association to oppose Wei Zhongxian. Unexpectedly, the matter was exposed, and Xu Xianchun, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, came to the artifact pawn shop to test. In the end, Xiu Niang designed Xu Xianchun, the enemy who killed his father, to injure himself with a plum blossom needle and die.