Feng Mofeng (simplified: 冯默风, traditional: 馮默風, pinyin: Féng Mòfēng, jyutping: fung4 mak6 fung1) was the youngest of Huang Yaoshi’s disciples on Peach Blossom Island. Though he had no part in Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng’s theft of the Nine Yin Manual, he was lamed and expelled with the other disciples, and spent the rest of his life as a blacksmith before dying to save Guo Jing from the Mongols.
Biography
On Peach Blossom Island
Feng Mofeng was one of Huang Yaoshi’s younger disciples, after the eldest, Qu Lingfeng, and the second, Chen Xuanfeng, and alongside Lu Chengfeng and Wu Gangfeng. He was one of the four disciples standing in attendance when Huang Yaoshi made up the couplet line about “four little ghosts” as a joke at their expense, the line Huang Rong later turned against the Fisherman, Woodcutter, Farmer and Scholar.
Expulsion
When Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng stole the Nine Yin Manual and fled, Huang Yaoshi flew into a rage and broke the legs of Lu Chengfeng and Wu Gangfeng when they spoke unwisely in protest. Feng Mofeng then said that only Chen and Mei had betrayed their shifu, that the rest were loyal, and that Huang Yaoshi should not have vented his anger by injuring Qu, Lu and Wu. Huang Yaoshi struck at him too and broke his leg, and the three younger disciples were driven from the island; Qu Lingfeng had already been lamed and expelled. This is the account that Mei Chaofeng had heard, as she recalled it years later.
Later life
In The Return of the Condor Heroes, Feng Mofeng had lived for more than thirty years as a lame village blacksmith in the country between the Xiang and Han rivers, cut off from the jianghu. When he heard from his shimei Cheng Ying that Huang Yaoshi regretted punishing him, he said that this was enough for him to die at peace. Later the Mongols conscripted him to make and mend weapons, and he secretly killed a Mongol commander of a thousand and a commander of a hundred. When Guo Jing was trapped in the Mongol camp, Feng Mofeng fought his way in with a red-hot iron hammer, seized the Golden Wheel Monk from behind and held on while he was beaten to death, so that Yang Guo could carry Guo Jing away.
Personality & traits
Feng Mofeng was loyal and honest. He spoke up for his shixiongs at the cost of his own leg, yet he bore his shifu no grudge, saying that he could never repay what he owed him.
Martial arts abilities
Feng Mofeng’s martial arts were weak compared with those of the great masters. In The Return of the Condor Heroes he fought with his blacksmith’s iron hammer and the iron crutch he leaned on, heating both red-hot in his forge.
Relationships
Huang Yaoshi
Huang Yaoshi was his shifu, who lamed and expelled him and later regretted it.
Fellow disciples
His fellow disciples were Qu Lingfeng, Chen Xuanfeng, Mei Chaofeng, Lu Chengfeng and Wu Gangfeng.