2 The original owner of the Xiao family's mansion was a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty, who was rewarded and rewarded by the emperor, and there were concubines in the family, so he was prominent for a while. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the Xiao family had a unique vision, invested in industry, and quickly became the richest man in the local area.

In the generation of Xiao Tianyou's great-grandfather's father, in the early years of the Republic of China, there was a golden age of national industry, and this legend happened at that time.

At that time, the head of the Xiao family was a big man named Xiao Jingrui, who ate both black and white, and even funded the warlords, and his industries not only included factories, docks, newspapers, foreign trade, tea houses, cloth villages, thousands of hectares of fertile land, and even his own film company and nightclub.

It can be said that he was a business wizard, and he was also the real owner of the Shade City at that time.

But the old man was not a very good man, and he was very dignified in his house, and set strict house rules, which were said to be extremely strange, and the punishment system was comparable to a set of torture. For example, if a person is a thief, he will be cut off. But in that era, who dared to ask about the Xiao family?

Because of the majesty of the eldest lord, the Xiao family trembled from top to bottom, and when they saw the eldest lord, they were as afraid as they were when they saw the emperor Lao Tzu.

On the one hand, the eldest lord has a cruel personality, but on the other hand, he is extremely lustful, and he is really a model of being strict with others and lenient with himself. There are twelve aunts and wives he married into the Xiao family alone, and there are also some beautiful women and beautiful boys who are sent to the mansion every once in a while for his recreation, and there are even theater troupes and cooks raised by him in the house.

Therefore, there are many heirs of the eldest master, but this kind of deep mansion compound, in order to compete for favor, I don't know how many battles there are in the open and secret, it is even more chaotic than the Grand View Garden in the Dream of Red Mansions, I don't know how many young masters and young masters who died young, and in the end, there are only nine young masters and one young lady who can grow up smoothly.

However, some people say that the eldest lord has developed a dying and dilapidated family not only because of his means—this man was just an ordinary loser in the first half of his life, and since he returned from a trip to the southwest when he was young, his fortune has been in full swing.

There is a strange rule in the Xiao family's mansion, which was also set by the eldest master after returning from the southwest. ”

It turned out that after the eldest lord came back from the southwest, he spent a huge amount of money to begin to expand the Xiao family's mansion, and established a secret back garden in the depths of the mansion, this garden is very strange, not to mention that there are pavilions and pavilions inside, but all the places facing the sky are covered by glass shutters, it is said that it is a fashionable glass flower house in Europe, and only a few blind, deaf and dumb servants are allowed to enter the garden to clean the garden, in addition, only the eldest lord himself can enter the garden at will.

And anyone who violates this prohibition will be subject to harsh family law.

Xiao Tianyou said this, pointing to a little boy who looked only seven or eight years old in the family photo: "This is the fourteenth young master, his own mother used to be the eldest master's favorite aunt and wife, who can sing and dance, and his son is also deeply spoiled by the eldest master, and has developed a brutal and willful character since he was a child."

Soon after taking this photo, he took another Thirteenth Young Master to explore the back garden without permission, and when he arrived at the door, the Thirteenth Young Master did not dare to enter and was scared away, but he stepped into the threshold of the garden with one foot. As a result, he and the thirteenth young master were both punished by family law.

The fourteenth young master was only nine years old at the time, tied up in the torture room, watched by the eldest master himself, gouged out his eyes, cut off his tongue, chopped off his hands and legs, and the thirteenth young master, although he did not enter the garden, cut off one of his right legs in order to punish him. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Nan couldn't help but look at his amputated right leg, and felt a little chilled.

"That's cruel......" he said.

"That's the family rules of the Xiao family." Xiao Tianyou said, "After the fourteenth young master was punished, he died after seven days and seven nights of pain, and his own mother hanged herself because of this. In this kind of family, the death of one or two people is not a new thing.

A servant said that he saw that the aunt tied the fourteenth young master, who was no longer human, to herself, wore a red dress and hanged herself, and before she died, she gouged out her eyeballs and put them on the door beam, which was a posture of becoming a ghost after death.

After another fifteen years, Master Xiao suddenly wanted to marry the thirteenth aunt, and the wedding banquet turned out to be the death day of the fourteenth young master and his mother. That day......"

Xiao Tianyou paused before saying: "On that day, the Xiao family, which was originally open for a happy event, suddenly closed the door after the arrival of relatives and friends. It is said that people passing by the door of Xiao's house said that the screams inside were one after another, shocking the earth.

Fortunately, a few back doors had not yet had time to close, and a few servants and young masters had escaped in a hurry. Among them was my great-grandfather, who after he and a few others escaped, he immediately sealed the back door and the front door, and no one else was allowed to enter the Xiao family's mansion. and quickly sold the assets of the Xiao family and fled.

My great-grandfather quietly returned to settle in the local area later, and told this strange story at home for generations, but never said what happened in the Xiao family's mansion that day, and the follow-up was very vague, just said that the Xiao family's mansion was very evil, and warned future generations not to enter.

Not long after he escaped from the Xiao family, his body gradually deformed. From his generation, the descendants who came after him were all deformed. ”

"It's ...... It's weird. Xiao Nan said, "If what you say is true." ”

"I have another thing to prove that what I said is true. The few people who escaped divided the property of the eldest master, and most of them achieved a wealthy family overseas, although my family stayed in the local area, it can be regarded as being shaded by the ancestors, and it is still considered a well-off, at least it can ensure that a waste person like me does not worry about food and clothing.

But in the past two years, other descendants of the Xiao family thought that there were treasures left by the eldest master in the Xiao family's mansion, and regarded the treasures as miraculous, and they even notified me and asked me to tell them everything my great-grandfather knew, saying that they would organize the excavation of the Xiao family, and if the treasures were discovered, they would share my share of the income.

Of course, I disagree, because I think that the things in the Xiao family, no matter how precious, are evil, and if you touch them, you will be unlucky. But my mother, since my father's death, has been obsessed with money, and now she is married to a little white face in a foreign country, and she is pregnant, so she wants to ask for this money and forces me to agree.

So, I wanted to tell someone else what I knew, and it would be a revenge on my mother. Xiao Tianyou smiled slightly, "Of course, I also hope that you, Professor Xiao, can fulfill one of my wishes, as a reward for telling you to me." You know, those descendants of the Xiao family plan to pay a million dollars in order to know what I said! ”

"A million dollars!" Xiao Nan exclaimed.

"Everything I just told you is known only to my great-grandfather, and the other so-called descendants of the Xiao family don't know so many details at all. They are nothing more than the descendants of the servants of the Xiao family, and they bear the name of the Xiao family.

There are some more interesting things, and if you promise me, I will tell you. Xiao Tianyou looks sick and weak, but he has a lot of thoughts.

"What do you want me to promise you?" Xiao Nan asked.

"I hope you will go to the Xiao family's mansion before the people of the Xiao family come here, after all, you are a professional and know what is valuable, and you originally planned to explore the Xiao family's mansion, didn't you. Ask me anything you need, and I'll find someone to get it for you. ”

Xiao Tianyou smiled slightly, "Of course, the legend of the Xiao family's mansion is too incredible, if you are scared, regret it, and decide not to go, it is too late now." ”

"I'll go." Xiao Nan said categorically. He didn't know where the impulse came from, and he felt as if something was pulling him in the dark.