1 The Xiao Family Mansion is an extremely well-preserved ancient building, and since its discovery, this mansion has been haunted by countless mysteries.

First of all, the location where it is located is extremely unbelievable, it is actually in the suburbs of the international coastal metropolis of Yincheng, you must know that Yincheng is now every inch of land, a square has been fried to more than 100,000 yuan, even the suburbs have been fought by developers to break the blood, and such a wealthy mansion in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China has only been suddenly discovered in recent years, and it seems to be invisible in the past few decades.

Secondly, the Xiao family's mansion and the surrounding territory where it is located have been spread by various rumors and strange rumors. Some people say that the place where the Xiao family's mansion is located is the entrance to the Yellow Spring, a forbidden land for feng shui, because the three developers who tried to develop the land boundary of the Xiao family's mansion all died.

Some people also said that the municipal construction originally planned to renovate the old neighborhood near the Xiao family's mansion, but on the day of construction, there was a sudden thunderstorm, and more than a dozen lightning bolts all split on the excavator of the construction team, resulting in the death of several people.

I don't know if these rumors are getting more and more noses and eyes, and finally the Xiao family's mansion and the nearby lot have been shelved for several years, and now this place, the developer does not want to move, and the municipal government simply does not care, and the original demolition plan has been abandoned.

The Xiao family's mansion should have fallen into obscurity again, but it was targeted by an archaeologist. This scholar is called Xiao Nan, and he is also a well-known rising star in the academic circle, he was admitted to a well-known university at the age of 14 with excellent results, completed the master's and doctoral studies at the age of 20, and is now only 27 years old, he has been rated as a professor, and he is extremely prominent in a group of archaeological experts known for his old age.

After Xiao Nan saw the pictures of the Xiao family's mansion on the Internet, he decided to take this old mansion that perfectly displayed the architectural art of the late Qing Dynasty as his research topic, probably because he was also surnamed Xiao, he secretly felt that this mansion could be the key to winning the academic award in one fell swoop.

Therefore, he decided to personally inspect this gorgeous but unknown "haunted house" for half a century.

As a scholar, he didn't believe in any ghosts or gods, but his current profession was strongly opposed by his family. The uncle-in-law who was in business was very superstitious, thinking that his archaeology would offend the ghosts and gods, so he gave up his studies early and followed him into business; His aunt arranged blind dates for him more than once, trying to make him "settle" and form his own small family, and then stay in the local school to teach, and even did not hesitate to use the method of crying, making trouble and hanging himself - saying that if he could not marry a wife and have children in peace, she would be sorry for his dead parents.

The stubborn aunt even went straight to the university where he was now working, forcing him to agree, saying that he would leave his job at the end of the year and go to the high-paying aristocratic middle school arranged for him by the successful businessman's uncle.

So this expedition can be regarded as the last chance of his archaeological career - his physical condition does not allow him to continue to run around the world like this.

He's actually already thinking about changing careers.

After telling a lie to the idle and bored lady and aunt who had been urging him to "check the post" from time to time, he prepared to drive to Yincheng by himself, and from his city it would take a few hours to drive to the ancient town where the Xiao family's mansion was located—"Xiao Town" on the outskirts of Yincheng.

However, in the past few days, the weather is not beautiful, and the clouds are thick, but it can't rain. was about to arrive at Xiao Town, Xiao Nan looked at his watch, but it was just one o'clock at noon, and the sky seemed to be about to get dark.

Get off the highway and then pass through a winding narrow road is the location of Xiao Town, both sides of the road are dense woods, half a day did not see a car passing, like an abandoned deserted road, the road surface is also potholes, as if no one has maintained it for a long time.

Finally arrived at Xiao Town, which made Xiao Nan breathe a sigh of relief, looking at the desolation of the road into the town, he almost thought that this place had been abandoned.

The fact is that the local houses look crowded and ancient, they are all self-built houses built decades ago, and there are still quite a lot of people, but since the developers abandoned the area, it has become a gathering place for migrant workers and the urban poor, and the local land rent is cheap, and it has become an "urban village".

Xiao Nan booked a local so-called folk inn online, which is actually a self-built house courtyard, and a few more floors have been built to become an inn. He drove into the parking lot of his own private yard that the shopkeeper had set up himself, and the place was like a three-way area, where everyone built random circles and rows of chaotic houses, making the whole town look like a big labyrinth.

The proprietress of the inn was more gossipy, and when she saw him, she asked him what he was doing here. Xiao Nan knew that the Xiao family's mansion was a big taboo in the local area, so he made up a nonsense reason, saying that he came to find a relative or friend.

Even so, the proprietress kept asking questions, and talked about her own misery, died at the age of thirty, and her husband is now living with two children.

Xiao Nan politely greeted her for a long time, and was finally able to get into his room.

The business of this inn is bleak, and it seems that he is the only guest now, and it is no wonder that the proprietress who is unwilling to be lonely will chat with him for a long time.

After entering the room, he first took off his outer pants, and when he unbuckled his belt, he held his right thigh with both hands and fiddled with it a few times, and then took off a whole "leg".

It looks a little scary, but it's actually a high-fidelity prosthetic leg.

That's why he gave up his job - he lost a leg in a car accident during a field trip six months ago, and although he can't accept that he is disabled now, he only has one leg left, which is a huge problem for himself and others at work.

It was because of this leg that the uncle-in-law thought that he had committed a taboo, saying that his work had annoyed the "ancestors" and was retributed.

No matter how realistic the prosthetic leg is, it can't really replace the real leg, he amputated above the knee, which is a high-level amputation, lost the knee joint, and the prosthesis only has a beautiful effect, no matter how hard he practices, he will walk with a slight limp, and the prosthetic leg cannot be worn for a long time, otherwise the remaining thigh will be worn out.

Now he already feels the hot pain of the crippled leg, it's not that he doesn't want to use the prosthetic leg to cover up the ugliness, but there is still work to be done below, so he can only grit his teeth and give up the prosthetic leg first.

After taking off his prosthetic leg and putting on his pants, he leaned his shoeed prosthetic leg against a corner that he would not see.

Half a year has passed, and when he sees the prosthetic leg again, he will still feel a little frightened.

Then he took out a pair of titanium elbow crutches from the black bag he had brought, which was much lighter to walk with double crutches than with prosthetic legs.

This pair of crutches is also a specially customized sports model for him.

It's just that when he went out on crutches, the proprietress downstairs who was drinking water was so frightened that her cup almost dropped. She didn't expect that the handsome guy who checked in just now turned out to be a one-legged person.

And her two sons, who were playing in the yard, also pointed at Xiao Nan and shouted, "Look! He only has one leg! After that, he imitated Xiao Nan's appearance and curled up one leg and jumped.

Xiao Nan ignored them at all, just lowered his peaked cap, and whenever he went out without a prosthetic leg, he would always get a lot of strange glances.

The place he was going to was an "insider" who had been contacted on the Internet before - an informant who was said to know the secrets of the Xiao family's mansion, and the difference between this person and the rumor-mongers on the Internet was that he said that he was a descendant of the Xiao family's mansion.

The place where this insider lives is very difficult to find, in an extremely hidden corner of Xiao Town, is a small villa with a single family. I can't imagine that there are such beautiful small buildings in this kind of urban village.

After the iron gate of the compound opened, it was opened by a middle-aged woman, who claimed to be the nanny of the family and took Xiao Nan to the living room of the villa.

In the living room there was a young man waiting for him, white and pure, with beautiful features, long eyelashes, but he looked very sickly, he was slumped in a wheelchair, and a blanket wrapped around his lower body, and it was evident that he had no legs.

"Professor Xiao, welcome, I am the Xiao Tianyou who left you a message." Youth Road.

At this time, the nanny said: "God, I'll go back first, and I'll cook for you in the evening." With that, he left the gate.

"You may be seated." Xiao Tianyou motioned for Xiao Nan to sit on the sofa, and then asked a strange question: "Professor Xiao, were you born with a leg missing?" ”

"......" Xiao Nan felt that this question was very abrupt, but he still answered honestly: "It's a car accident." ”

"Oh." Xiao Tianyou showed a strange look, and then took out a photo album from behind his cushion and put it on the coffee table, "This is my family photo album, and I have it from my great-grandfather's generation." You look through it first, and I'll tell you about the Xiao family's mansion. ”

Xiao Nan flipped through the photo album and turned through a few pages of old photos, his expression became incredible, and then he raised his head and asked, "Your family...... Have a genetic disease? ”

Because he saw that all the males of Xiao Tianyou's family were deformed by missing hands and legs or dwarfs, some were even born with skull deformities, and some had several eyes and two mouths, which should be the so-called multi-faceted syndrome [that is, the malformation of two fetuses fused into one], which is as terrifying as aliens!

"That's right, the men of the Xiao family were born deformed, and I'm still good." As he spoke, he lifted the blanket covering his lower body - he saw that Xiao Tianyou was only wearing a pair of underwear, and his two legs were only thighs.

"I was born with missing legs. But my other cousins weren't so lucky, one was born without even a brain, and some had no internal organs. Xiao Tianyou covered his legs and said, "But the people of the Xiao family stubbornly believe that their bloodline is precious, even if the male born is 100% deformed, they still have to keep giving birth until they give birth to a boy who can pass on the ancestry." ”

"So you asked me that just now, because you suspect that I may be one of the descendants of the Xiao family?" Xiao Nan said.

"Yes, because of the descendants of the Xiao family, no one will be interested in that mansion." Xiao Tianyou said.

"There may also be intellectually curious scholars." Xiao Nan took out his voice recorder and began to record, which also asked Xiao Tianyou for his consent.

"And this ......" Xiao Tianyou stretched out his hand and opened the album, which was the last few pages of the album, the photo was even older, and there was a family photo, and the characters in it were all people from the Republic of China.

"This is my great-great-grandfather's generation." He said.

Xiao Nan took a closer look at the photo, there were a lot of people on it, and it was quite blurry due to the long time. But the people above are undoubtedly all normal people.

"So from this generation onwards, there have been genetic mutations?" He said.

Xiao Tianyou did not answer directly, but pointed to a beautiful little boy standing in the front row in the group photo and said, "This is my great-grandfather." Then he flipped forward and found a single photo, the man in the photo had a crooked face, even multi-faced, his hands and feet were curled up like bean sprouts, and his spine was curved, and his body was rickety, which at first glance looked like a monster in a horror movie, which made people unbearable to look at directly.

"That's him, too. It's the same person. It is impossible for a person to suddenly mutate genetically when he is an adult, right? Xiao Tianyou said, "You may not believe what I say next, but it does exist." ”

He kept flipping through the photo album again, pointed to a young man in the group photo and said, "This is my great-grandfather's third brother." ”

After that, he found a photo of a deformed person who was also creepy: "This is who he was later." In this way, the survivors of this family portrait have all undergone physical aberrations a few years later, and have passed on this aberration to the next generation. Even...... Even in the family portrait, the maid and scholar who are not related to the Xiao family have also undergone the same changes. ”

Xiao Nan was stunned for a long time before he said, "You mean, there may be some kind of radioactive substance in the Xiao family's mansion?" ”

"The Xiao family's mansion was built here in the early Qing Dynasty, why are the ancestors okay for several generations, only this generation has been distorted?" Xiao Tianyou said, "This is some kind of 'curse'. My ancestors have passed down an incredible strange secret about the Xiao family's mansion. ”

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