"I've heard you say for so many days, and I don't see what connection Kui Laokun has with this big tomb."

"Xiaolin, you are too anxious! Everything has a cause first, and then there is a consequence! ”

"Okay, you go on." Lin Ying felt that Section Chief Feng had finally returned.

Section Chief Feng continued to tell the story of Kui Lao Kun, who had been called "Lao Kun" since he was given the title by the emperor, even though he was not old at all.

Kui Laokun lived in Yuntang Town for another eight years, and he did not study the Four Books and Five Classics, nor did he learn the Zhou Yi Bagua.

"These are the things that take a peep at the leopard, and learn from them."

Despite this, the dialogue between him and the emperor spread in Beijing, and many dignitaries and dignitaries traveled thousands of miles to Weiyang to meet the "real people" and plead for advice.

But Kui Laokun still refused.

"I haven't understood it yet, so I don't dare to say it."

When he was ten years old, Kui Laokun's grandfather died, and the local squire paid for a vigorous funeral for him. After the funeral, Kui Lao Kun remained at home, but to the delight of the squires, he began to help people guide the maze.

However, if you want to get Kui Laokun's guidance, you can't do it without money, and it is impossible to have less money.

He also deliberately found a show to write a red paper banner, which was pasted on the door of the Kui family's house, with ten words written on it - "Heaven is worth ten thousand, and there is no money to come to the door".

A poor man asked Kui Lao Kun if he hated the poor and loved the rich, and Kui Lao Kun smiled and said: "Heaven and earth are not kind, and all things are used as dogs, so why should all things be merciful to each other?" ”

In the end, the person who came to the door was either a huge rich man in Suzhou and Hangzhou, or a prince and a eunuch - Kui Laokun's fees were too high.

Therefore, although Kui Laokun was surprised by his magic, he did not leave much ink in the history books, after all, it was either the historians of the imperial court who wrote history, or the literati who were idle, and these people could not afford to invite Kui Laokun. And those high-ranking officials and rich people, if they find Kui Laokun by themselves, they will not easily show others.

And Kui Laokun collected so much money, neither marrying a wife and having children, nor buying mountains and fields, he only had one hobby, that is, buying places and building houses.

"Isn't this the same thing that Xiao Yuanjun is doing in Niangniang Temple now?" When Lin Ying heard this, she couldn't help asking.

Section Chief Feng smiled and said: "So there is an old saying in Yuntang, called 'Yuntang Half Biankui'. ”

"Yes, I heard from the descendants of the Kui family." Lin Ying remembered that Kui Yanxiao said in the past that the Kui family was a big family in Yuntang in the past, accounting for "half of the rivers and mountains" in Yuntang, but later the people were scattered.

She told Section Chief Feng about this, and Section Chief Feng smiled.

"If you have studied the local history, you will find that the Yuntang Kui clan has always been sparsely populated, especially the main house lineage, and there are often three generations of single transmission, but the situation is endless.

"The reason why it is called 'Yuntang Half Kui' is because Kui Laokun bought land everywhere in the town at that time to rebuild, and in the end, the Kui family's house basically occupied a small half of Yuntang Town."

People of the same clan asked him, why do you live in so many houses alone?

Kui Laokun smiled and said that he is one person now, and there will be more people in the future.

There is also a strange thing, that is, the worker who built the house for the Kui family is also a deaf, dumb and stupid villager that Kui Laokun found everywhere, he eats and drinks well to support this group of people, they can only work, not speak.

No one knows what is going on inside the high walls of the Kui family.

Of course, Kui's family is small, the walls are high, and the house is large, so he will naturally be targeted by thieves. Legend has it that there is a man surnamed Chu in the outer village, since he was a child, he learned a trick of flying eaves and walking on the wall, he saw that the house was very large, and the servants were deaf, so in the middle of the night, he jumped on the high wall by the big tree outside the courtyard.

But as soon as he sat down on the wall, he noticed a sign with black letters on a white background and a few words written on it.

"When the fourth day of April in the sixth year of Longqing was ugly, the Chu people peeped here."

The thief surnamed Chu was so frightened that he flipped over his head and threw himself out of the wall. This matter slowly spread, and no one dared to fight the idea of the Kui Mansion again.

When he was fifteen years old, Kui Laokun suddenly went on a long trip, and since then he has disappeared for thirty years.

Thirty years later, a man wearing a mask led a group of women and children back to the Kui house, and the people in Yuntang Town were surprised to find that Kui Laokun had married so many daughters-in-law and had so many children, and the house built by the Kui family was really for the sake of his descendants.

Later, Kui Laokun settled his family and lived in Yuntang for three years, then disappeared again.

Some people say that he was called by the Wanli Emperor to build a mausoleum, and some people say that he worked as an errand for a prince, in short, Kui Laokun never returned to Yuntang Town, and his children grew up one by one and lived a decent life in Yuntang.

Later, the Jurchens went south, and various small courts in the Southern Ming Dynasty were defeated and retreated. After the change of dynasty, there were years of war, and many families suffered catastrophes, but the Kui family was magically preserved.

As for Kui Laokun, after going through two dynasties and several emperors, it has become a legend in Yuntang Town.

The time soon came to the sixty-first year of Kangxi, that year, the general Wang Yinyu had just quelled the Dzungar invasion of Tibet, and was stationing troops in Ganzhou, preparing to go west to Ili and destroy the Dzungar Khan's plot to abolish Alabutan.

At that time, there were several Yuntang people in the Qing army, and they were all conscripted people. One winter night that year, when the cold winter was howling outside, a man with gray hair and a soft leather mask came to their tent.

A few Yuntang people were still wondering, but the man took out a letter, handed them a cloth bag, and said, "If you return to your hometown tomorrow, please hand over this letter and this thing to Yuntang Kui Gale Wind." ”

Kui Gale was the patriarch of the Yuntang Kui clan at that time, and of course the people of Yuntang knew him.

"Who are you? The great general Wang plans to go west next spring, and it is still early for us to return to our hometown. ”

The man did not speak, but smiled, then lifted the felt cloth of the tent and disappeared into the night.

A few Yuntang people chased them out and found that there was silence outside, only the cold wind blowing from Qilian Mountain was shouting.

The next morning, they were woken up by the terrible sound of trumpets, and one of them ran over to convey the order that all but the remaining troops should return east. The people of Yuntang are also in the Donggui establishment.

They remembered the strange man's prophecy last night, and they couldn't help but be inexplicably horrified.

"Aren't you going to go west? How do I want to go back? They asked.

"I don't know? Even the great general Wang returned to Beijing yesterday! ”

"Why did you go back to Beijing?"

"I heard that the emperor died!"

A few people were startled, they didn't dare to ask any more questions, but they kept the letter and the cloth bag more properly, because this was a matter entrusted by a masked god, how dare they slack off.

This group of people returned to their hometown in the autumn of the first year of Yongzheng, they handed over the letter and cloth bag to the Kui family, and then went back to inquire about who the strange person they met was.

"You are young, and you know little." There was an old show in the town who began to tell the story of Kui Laokun, and after finishing speaking, he sighed and said, "After two dynasties and eight emperors, Lao Kun has become an immortal, right?" ”

This incident was recorded in the notes by Lao Xiucai, and this was also the last time Kui Laokun's figure appeared in history.