Pawnshop No. 8 from Eight Generals of Thousand Gates

No. 8 Huaishu Lane, old sign: No. 8 Pawn Shop. The rules are posted on the door frame—real name, leave information, and check the source. Liang Dongfeng, a clerk in the archives during the day, guards this consignment shop at night. Three years ago, his futures position exploded, losing all his savings and his desire to win. On a rainy night, the rickety old man took a hot gold bar and left half a page of broken music: The game can be broken, but the heart can't be defended. In the 26th year of the Republic of China, there was a No. 8 Pawnshop at No. 8 Huaishu Lane, which closed in 1948. He Shouyi, a descendant of the He family, handed the remaining genealogy to him sixty years later and was passing on the last descendant of the line. The Eight Generals of a Thousand Doors, who are upright and anti-detached, and who are in charge of gossip, correspond to the eight signs of gossip and the eight natures of the human heart: greed, pride, anger, ignorance, doubt, fear, resentment, and jealousy. Eight stages of life, eight difficult tribulations, merged into the same whirlpool: the unfinished gold-keeping game. A gold bar, a register with half a page torn off, a game within a game spanning three generations. Some people offer rewards for gold bars, while others climb through windows and leave seals; in the Ming Dynasty, the eight gates of gold and leather are hung in the rivers and lakes, while in the dark, the eight gates of bees, sparrows and sparrows hide in the shadows. Thousands of upright people abide by the rules, thousands of unfaithful ones gamble on people's hearts, and thousands of unfaithful ones break the chain. Liang Dongfeng was caught in the middle, both the prey and the heir. He broke down one game after another and saw through each heart, only to realize that what is really difficult to break is not the game, but the human heart - what belongs to others is also his own. It is easy to break the situation, but difficult to keep the heart. When the end was revealed, he realized that those six words were not a warning, but a will: Thousands of rules are not to teach people how to win, but to teach people how to hold on after winning. Pawnshop No. 8 Is still open as usual, with one more rule: I accept the things that come from unknown sources; I block the troubles that come from unknown sources.