Huang Mou / Old Brother Liang
Huang Mou
"Last month while gambling, I told a man that if I lost that hand I'd take his surname. So now my surname is Huang."
A Disciple of the Kongtong Sect's Iron Fist Gate. The same portrait is called two different things in the Story: "Huang Mou" and "Old Brother Liang".
Huang Mou
During the Kongtong study (Mar Year 2), in Crane Hand's Outing he and two fellow disciples from the Flying Heaven Gate and the Soul-Stealing Gate form a trio and block Zhao Huo's way. They resent that the Kongtong Four Maidens, future Sect Leader's Wives, are kept at a distance even by fellow disciples, while Zhao Huo, a newcomer exchange student, dares to walk alongside . Before the fight his companion thinks his surname is Zhuang, and he has to explain that he lost a bet last month and took another man's surname, and that it was not Zhuang to begin with. The three form a combined formation and gang up on Zhao Huo; if Zhao Huo wins, he is the first to run. After Rui Sheng steps in and blocks the three's Ultimates, the three fall to infighting over who gets the lines and break up. He angrily demands back the Spring Pictures he once drew for his Soul-Stealing Gate companion, and is flatly refused.
Old Brother Liang
Owner of "Liang's Rice Noodles" and an old acquaintance of Danxiazi. Years ago Danxiazi promised to visit once a year to keep his shop afloat, but missed ten years running, so he always says Danxiazi owes him ten bowls of noodle money.
During the Kongtong succession struggle in May Year 3, he serves as captain of the Fangyue Squad in the "Wind and Fire Volunteers" that Wei Ju's call to arms gathers. He jokes to Danxiazi, who has returned to the mountain, that if he kills Venerable Golden Crow the ten bowls of noodle money are wiped clean, and at Huang Peihua's reminder changes his blurted "block them to the death" to "guard the formation and the banner". He is then ordered to pacify Nangou Market and lock the villagers bribed by Golden Crow in the wine cellar to keep them from passing word, securing the rear, and he heartily approves of Danxiazi returning to Kongtong Mountain openly and honorably through the Sect Leader's investiture rite, the "Tour of the Four Gates".
Other Appearances
Below are appearances of the same portrait with no name given, where it cannot be determined which of the two above it is, or whether it is either of them at all.
In the Kongtong robbery, after Zhao Huo wins big at the Gambling Den, he and a Soul-Stealing Gate disciple follow him to extort him (pay and it is −1500 Silver Taels and −50 Mood; refuse and a fight starts). If 's affinity is ≧20, Xiao Zhu steps in to help or to get the Silver Taels back; he curses her for siding with an outsider and gets talked back at, then threatens to report her to Gate Leader Lei. After Zhao Huo and Xiaomei beat up Yan Jiang, he also shows up in the Soul-Quelling Prison clamoring to be let out.
On the streets of Jiangling, when a drunkard makes a scene demanding to see the Kongtong Four Maidens, or someone boasts that having the "Bone-Cracking Demon of Kongtong" maintain his treasured blade is her honor, he speaks up and scolds them. On the day Xiao Zhu leaves the Iron Fist Gate, he is shocked and indignant to hear that the Flying Heaven Direct Disciple stole the Sect Leader's Dragon-Elephant Leopard Strength Pill and that the gate's spirit beast was killed. When bandits raid the Tang Clan Forge on the Ruined Temple route, this portrait also appears among the bandits without any lines.
During the Kongtong succession struggle in May Year 3, he once questions whether a contest for Sect Leader that someone meddled in should count; when Venerable Golden Crow declares himself the new Sect Leader and pardons those who turned coat, he advises his fellow disciples that since Danxiazi has no chance of winning and the other side is not pressing the matter, they may as well quit while they are ahead.