Kui Laokun said that what we drank was tea made from the jade grass under the ground. This tea has a natural fragrance, and after taking a sip, you will feel refreshed, and the cold and tiredness in the cave before will be swept away in an instant.

So while drinking cool tea, we listened to Kui Laokun tell his life story - why he built the tomb of King Luqiu, why he lived in seclusion here, why he lived forever, all kinds of truths are like books, slowly unfolding with his narrative.

Feng Yuanheng once said before that the Yuntang Kui family settled here from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and the first generation of ancestors was named Kui Shiyuan, which is also the so-called "Shiyuan Gong" of the Kui family.

But the history of the Kui family seems to be longer.

According to the genealogy of the Kui clan, the Yuntang Kui clan came from the Qin Dynasty's prime minister Kui Lin's lineage, and a group moved to Longyou in the Western Han Dynasty, so there was the Tianshui Kui clan, and there was a force that could divide one side and compete with Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty.

But with the change of stars, it seems that there has been no particularly prominent figure in history since the surname Kui.

As for the current Kui clan, there was indeed a large number of migrations during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. One of them moved from Changzhi, Shanxi Province to Fangshan Luzishui Village in the southwest of Beijing, and multiplied day by day, so there is a saying that "there is a Kui in the world, and the hometown Luzishui" is said.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, because of the bursting of the Yellow River at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the spread of plague, frequent natural disasters, coupled with the Hongwu Northern Expedition and the Battle of Jingyan, the population of the country decreased sharply. Therefore, during the Hongwu, Jianwen and Yongle years of the Ming Dynasty, the government carried out a large-scale forced migration and deployment of the national population, which is known as the Great Migration in the early Ming Dynasty.

I originally thought that the Yuntang Kui clan also immigrated in the early Ming Dynasty, but Kui Laokun denied this statement.

"The so-called Kui clan is just a false name, but it actually refers to the mountain as a surname."

"What do you mean by referring to the mountain as a surname?"

Kui Laokun said that the inheritances of Kui Lin and Kui Huan are actually just the attachment of the ancestors after deciding to have the surname Kui. The actual situation is that his ancestor Kui Shiyuan wandered to Yuntang in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and heard that the mountain in the north is called Kui Mountain, and this city also has the same surname as the mountain, called Kuiyang.

"The city is the same as the mountain, and I will follow it!" Kui Shiyuan sighed with emotion, since then, he has settled in Yuntang, and then claimed to be a descendant of Kui Huan - the reason why he said this is that he had passed by Longxi Chengji before and heard the legend of the general of Xizhou, Shuoning, King Kui.

"It's providence!"

So Shiyuan Gong also made up a set of lineages, and the Yuntang Kui clan not only had a surname, but also a root.

"What was your ancestor's last name before that?"

Kui Lao Kun smiled and said, "I don't know. Hundreds of years ago, I once went out of the tomb, went west to Longyou, visited my ancestors to find my roots, but found nothing. ”

No wonder it was once said that in the area of Gansu during the Kangxi period, there were still people who caught a glimpse of Kui Laokun.

"When you went to find your roots, was it the era when men wore braids, and at that time you also asked the fellow villagers of Yuntang to help the descendants of the same clan Kui Gale carry a letter, right?"

"It's contemptible, don't be in a hurry, and listen to me from the beginning."

Kui Laokun said that Shiyuan Gong handed down two sets of genealogies back then. One set is on the surface, and on that set of genealogy, the genealogy of the Kui family from Kui Lin to Kui Huan, from Kui Huan to Kui Shiyuan is all written on it, and it is made up seamlessly.

But the Kui family also has a second set of genealogies, which are placed in the hall underground.

"The Kui clan, from the beginning of the establishment of the clan, has been good at creating a 'ghost house'." Kui Laokun said.

"What is a haunted house?" I asked.

Kui Laokun said that the so-called ghost mansion refers to the underground mansion. It turns out that the Kui family has a tradition that if they settle somewhere and build a house on the ground, they need to build a house underground.

"People live on the ground, ...... underground"

Kui Laokun paused for a moment, then sighed and continued: "Underground...... Inhabited by inhuman beings. ”

According to him, it turned out that the Kui family's mansion was generally inhabited by people on the ground, but monsters like him lived underground......

It turns out that the Kui clan has a fish-faced baby with eyes like beans and a collapsed nose every few generations. According to the ancestral teachings, this kind of baby not only cannot be killed, but also has to be raised underground to take care of the treasure of the Kui clan - the three night pearls.

In other words, since ancient times, the Kui family has given birth to two kinds of babies, one is normal-looking so they can live on the ground, but the other is strange-looking and they must be raised underground.

This is the reason why the Kui family must build two houses, Yin and Yang.

And the real Kui clan genealogy is also hidden underground, it records the names of all the descendants of the Kui clan in the open and secret, and also records the true origin of the Kui clan.

Kui Lao Kun is the first fish-faced person of the Kui family to live on the ground, when he was born, the Kui family has been breeding in Yuntang for several generations, and the population is increasing, and has become a big family in Kuiyang.

There are many clansmen, and it is difficult to manage. Due to the need for secrecy, not everyone will know about the fish-faced people in the clan.

It takes generations to produce an ugly boy, so everyone thinks that this kind of thing will not be their turn.

Kui Laokun's father was an official in Beijing, and he stayed away from Yuntang very early, so he naturally didn't know about this tradition of the family. So when he was born, his mother almost abandoned him because she was too frightened.

Fortunately, his grandfather heard about this, and he was shocked, knowing that it was difficult to hide the matter of the old Kun Fishface Man, so he hurriedly asked someone to take his grandson back to Yuntang, not only did not blame him, but loved him even more.

He was reluctant to lock his grandson underground and live that dark life. In addition, this matter has been known to everyone, and hiding him will make people suspicious.

Therefore, my grandfather simply began to break the ancestral training and "stock" Kui Laokun. He gave the child a nickname, Ayan, and did not register him in the genealogy that was clearly written.

"Leap, redundant." Kui Laokun explained.

As a well-known fish-faced man, he became redundant in the family.

But even so, Kui Laokun doesn't like the sun-drenched life outside, and his favorite place since he was a child is the "ghost house" underground.

And what is hidden in the haunted house is the three luminous orbs.

Kui Laokun remembered that the night pearl was sealed in a lead box, and there was a fish lock on the box, and there were more than a dozen lines of keys on the lock, which ordinary people could not unlock at all.

When he was a child, Ah Yan was actually not interested in the Night Pearl, what he was really interested in was the collection of books below.

The Kui family's collection of books can be described as three religions and nine streams, with everything. In addition, Shi Yuangong is also a person who likes to record things, and when Kui Laokun was looking for a book, he accidentally found a few dusty notes.

The note was sealed in a sandalwood box, and when opened, the smell was fragrant. The notes are packed with threads, and when I open them, I see that they are full of fly-headed small letters written by Shiyuan Gong Bing Candle.

The name of the note is "Yuan Yuan Gou Ji". In this notebook, Shi Yuangong recorded the history he had heard, which was still the story of Yuntang Kui's surname......