As mentioned in the last book, Liu Yuanwai, who took out a large sum of money to donate to the class, was suddenly promoted two levels because of his meritorious service in taking food, and the Liu family suddenly developed.

However, on this day, a strangely dressed thin old man suddenly came to the door of Liu's house and said that he had something important to ask to see Master Liu, and after speaking, he took out a copper ring with a strange style and handed it to the servant of Liu's family to watch the door.

"Give this ring to your master Liu, and say that the old beard is here to collect debts."

After handing over the ring, the strange old man walked to the side of the gate with his hands in his hands, and his eyes were full of "hehe" and he sneered.

It stands to reason that since the person who came dared to put on such a score at the door of Master Liu's house, most of them had some background, and the servant who took the ring should also inform the housekeeper of the house.

However, on duty at the gate of Liu's house that day, it was a village man who had no eyesight, he pinched the copper ring in his hand and glanced at it, then threw it to the side, and then spat on the ground: "It's really unlucky today, as soon as I opened the door early in the morning, I ran into an old madman!" ”

Seeing that the servant was so rude, the old man laughed, shook his head, and said, "It's up to you whether to send it or not, but you don't regret it." ”

With that, the old man picked up the brass ring from the ground, brushed away the dust from it with his hand, stuffed the ring into his sleeve, and dusted the sleeves of his robe and fluttered away.

There is a strange thing that happens every year, and there are many of them.

Not long after the strange old man left, Master Liu suddenly hurried out of the back house with a few stewards, and hurriedly tied the hat belt under his chin while running, as if he was running too quickly, and he came out without even putting on his hat.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Master Liu opened his mouth and asked a few servants on duty at the door: "Has there ever been a short old man?" ”

Seeing that the old man was in a hurry like this, the janitor who had lost the old man's ring suddenly "chuckled" in his heart, and said that it was going to be bad!

But at this time, he couldn't help but deny it: there were three servants standing guard with him at the gate of the Liu family, and if this kind of thing was exposed by others, then his job would be really ruined.

So the servant "plopped" and fell to the ground, and then rounded his arms and "snapped" and slapped his big mouths, and then he cried and told everything that had just happened.

As soon as he heard that the short and thin old man who claimed to be an old beard was actually blown away by this servant as a madman, Master Liu was so angry that he blew his beard.

"What an eyeless idiot, he dares to be disrespectful to our Liu family's distinguished guests, come on, quickly take the family law!"

Seeing that Master Liu was actually going to torture this servant, several stewards who followed behind the master hurriedly surrounded him to intercede for the servant.

At the end, Master Liu stomped his feet hatefully: "Come on, get the incense burner with me!" Light a burner of incense, and let this blind fool kneel at the gate for me. ”

After speaking, Master Liu pointed at the frightened servant with his hand: "Give me incense and kneel here, when will he come back, when will you get up!" ”

After that, Old Man Liu snorted angrily and stomped his feet, turned around and went back to the room.

It is said that the servant knelt at the door for about half an hour, and in the distance came a thin old man in a short green robe.

The old man raised one of his sleeves and wiped his mouth as he walked, as if he had just come from somewhere to eat, it was the old beard who had left with a sneer.

As soon as he saw that the old man Hu was actually smashing his mouth proudly while walking, the servant who was kneeling on the ground with incense on the ground was suddenly angry: "Okay, you old beard, I knelt here so that my knees and head were about to break, and you fell outside and ate with a mouth full of oil?" ”

However, he gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart, and he didn't dare to show a trace of unhappiness on his face.

When the servant saw the old beard head going and returning, he hurriedly called the other subordinates who greeted him to hurry up and report to Master Liu.

After that, the doorman carried the incense burner on his head, walked to the old beard with his knees, and kept arching his hands, and wept bitterly that he used to look down on people with his own dog's eyes, but now he knew that he was wrong, and begged the old beard to raise his noble hand to save him.

As he was talking, he heard Master Liu's happy and excited voice from far away in the Liu family's house: "Is it Hu Engong?" Please come to the back hall for tea! ”

What happened in the back hall of Liu's house after that was not something that a few coolies could inquire about.

I only know that after the old beard left that day, Master Liu asked the housekeeper to arrange special manpower to clean up a small Qichu courtyard with a three-story attic in the back house.

At the end, the steward of the team leader also hung a big lock on the door of the small courtyard, saying that this small courtyard was specially ordered by the master to be set aside to entertain distinguished guests, and no one was allowed to enter the courtyard to disturb them.

Just because it was very popular in large families at that time to take their relatives and friends to their homes to live for a few days, and they would compete with each other to see if the courtyard for entertaining relatives and friends was elegant and elegant.

Everyone only thinks that Master Liu wants to stay in the hospital to entertain guests, so they work really hard to clean up, and everyone wants to sell well in front of the master and ask for rewards.

However, no one would have thought that the distinguished guest who was about to visit the door in the mouth of Master Liu never came.

So much so that the big lock on the door was hung for twenty years, until the lock was rusted to death, and it was never opened again.

The book is brief, and after another two years, the old man Liu, who was in charge of the Liu Mansion, suddenly traveled westward with a crane, and his son Xiao Liu inherited the family business.

After the funeral of Old Man Liu was completed, Xiao Liu had to take a few family members to patrol the back house one by one.

It's just that the little Liu Yuanwai has no intention of going out to donate business to be an official since he was a child, and he just wants to lie on the family business and enjoy the blessings, so he was severely criticized by his father Liu for being an incompetent loser, and the Liu family's family business was not allowed to touch his hands.

Today, Xiao Liu is finally able to inspect the property in his name one by one as the principal.

As they walked, Xiao Liu and his party turned to the door of the small courtyard with a big lock on the door and had not been opened for twenty years.

In the past, when Master Liu was in charge, this small courtyard had not been allowed to outsiders to enter, and everyone was usually afraid of the authority of the master, and no one dared to trespass.

It's just that the current Liu family has been replaced by Xiao Liu's external manager, and now Xiao Liu is trying to take the opportunity to make some things out in the back house, so that he can stand up in front of the family.

So Xiao Liu was about to glare: "Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and I haven't seen any guests come to the door, so it can be seen that people will not come."

Steward Liu, you quickly get the key to open the door! Steward Li, you quickly find a few people with hoes and brooms to clean out this small courtyard.

I see it as secluded and transparent, and it can be used to drink in the summer tonight! ”

Who knew that when Steward Liu finally found the key that had not been used for 20 years, he found that he couldn't open the lock hanging on the courtyard door.

When Steward Liu lifted the lock and looked at the light, he found that the keyhole had been blocked by thick rust.

Seeing this situation, Xiao Liu became anxious when he went out: "I still don't believe in this evil, Steward Li quickly went to get a hammer to smash this tattered lock, and I will definitely drink in this courtyard tonight!" ”

However, Xiao Liu's smash was an accident......