Since they were greeted, we didn't want to freeze outside the door, so we walked towards the store one after another, and He Wenqin also turned back to the store, only the white old dog drooped his face, staring at He Wenqin's back with slanted eyes, ouch, that face was black and hated to drip water.

Granny Gu stretched out her hand and pushed the old white dog: "Don't be stiff, go in." The old white dog moved sullenly.

This guy may be He Wenqin's own property, and when he went upstairs, he also beckoned the guys in the store to prepare tea for us.

The first floor of the furniture store is used for business, half of the second floor is a warehouse with small furniture of small weight, and the other half is separated by a screen to serve as a tea room for customers.

As soon as I sat down, He Wenqin asked me with a smile: "The second master is very good, right?" ”

I returned a smile: "It's good." ”

"What has the second master been busy with lately?"

"There have been a lot of things in the industry in the past two years, and the second master is also very busy, to be honest, I don't know exactly what he is busy with."

"Is the second master still the same as before, running outside all year round?"

"Well, he rarely has time to stay at home."

He Wenqin opened his mouth for a second master and closed his mouth for a second master, which was amiable, and I found that every time he mentioned the second master, he would glance at the white old dog intentionally or unintentionally.

I guess He Wenqin is not really interested in the second master's affairs, he must know the entanglement between the white old dog and the second master, and he keeps mentioning the second master, just to stimulate the white old dog.

To say that Bai Laogou is really unpopular, he can meet people who don't deal with him anywhere.

But I'm also a little selfish, after all, Bai Laogou has been cooperating with me for so long, watching He Wenqin toss him so much, to be honest, I don't feel comfortable in my heart, while He Wenqin hasn't picked up his words, I quickly guide the topic: "Senior He, do you know where the old house of the Jin family is?" ”

He Wenqin was stunned for a moment, and then sighed sullenly: "When I was a child, the adults in my family took me to go once, but that time we only met the Jin family in the mountains, and we didn't enter the old house. ”

I said, "Well...... You should always know the general location, right? ”

He Wenqin looked very helpless: "I was too young at that time, and I can't remember many facts clearly, but I only remember that I had stayed in Saigon for one night before meeting the Jin family, and the next day I went a long way along the Saigon River. ”

Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City, that is to say, the ruins of the old residence of the Kim family should be in Ho Chi Minh City, the upper reaches of the Saigon River, no, the search area is still too large, continue to look for it like this, it will not take a year and a half, I am afraid that there will be no gain.

I took out the rolled up rhinoceros skin and handed it to He Wenqin: "Senior He, look at what is written on it." ”

He Wenqin unfolded the rhinoceros skin and looked at it, but he was also confused, saying that he didn't understand what these ten words meant.

That's the trouble.

I pondered for a long time before I spoke: "Senior He, how much do you know about the Jin family's affairs?" ”

Bai Laogou interjected coldly: "The history of the Jin family has been long......"

Before he finished speaking, Granny Gu shook her eyes over, and the old white dog shut up.

This time, He Wenqin didn't fight against Bai Laogou again, and nodded and said: "Our He family and Lao Jin family both started in the Southern Song Dynasty, and if we tell this history thoroughly from beginning to end, it will indeed take a lot of time." ”

At this time, the guys brought tea, and I said that we should talk while drinking tea, and it should be a matter of gossip.

Everyone drank tea, He Wenqin spent a little time sorting out his thoughts, and then told the story of the old Jin family, he is not the Jin family after all, and many things are also heard from the old people in the family, the content is not necessarily accurate, but it can provide me with some clues.

He Wenqin said that when the Jin family just started, it was just in time for the Southern Song Dynasty to be overturned, the whole day was in chaos, and life was difficult, just in the short ten years of the Song Duzong Dynasty, it encountered three major disasters, almost wiped out the clan, probably also the destiny of heaven, the Jin family finally survived in the stormy Southern Song Dynasty, and began to develop and grow in the Yuan Dynasty.

The history of the He family also began in the Southern Song Dynasty, but the He family is not as sad as the Jin family, starting from the establishment of the family, it can be said that it has been singing all the way to continue to grow, until the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, the He family Ding has increased dramatically, relying on the little family business that he has saved before, he can no longer support so many people, and it was at this time that the He family met a noble man - Shen Wansan.

At the beginning, Shen Wansan took the initiative to contact the He family, saying that he wanted to do a big thing and needed the help of the He family, the He family was trapped in his livelihood, and Shen Wansan had countless assets, but because he did not have a powerful helper, the two sides hit it off. At that time, in addition to the He family, there was also the Jin family who were recruited by Shen Wansan, and it was precisely because of Shen Wansan's relationship that the He and Jin families had been friends for hundreds of years.

As for what Shen Wansan did after raising the He and Jin families, He Wenqin didn't know, he just heard from the old people in the family that before Shen Wansan passed away, he handed over two things to the contemporary heads of the He and Jin families, and divided more than half of the assets under his name equally between the He and Jin families.

This is a bit unbelievable, it is said that the He and Jin families are just Shen Wansan's recruits, why did he want to divide half of his life savings among these two families after he died? That seems a bit unreasonable.

He Wenqin said that in the Ming Dynasty, the scale of the He family has not changed, but the Jin family has continued to grow, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scale of the Jin family in the industry can almost catch up with the six major families today.

I don't know why, after the Qing army entered the customs, the Jin family fled to Annam and moved out of the country. This made many colleagues in the industry puzzled, it is said that the Qing army did not know the existence of the Jin family, and the Jin family did not participate in any war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, why did they want to avoid disasters and move their families away?

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan and Ming dynasties were swaying, and in the Qing Dynasty, the family moved south, and there seemed to be some kind of mystery hidden in this series of family ups and downs.

I took a sip of tea and interrupted He Wenqin: "Where does the inheritance of the old Jin family come from?" ”

"I don't know about this," He Wenqin said, "but I heard from the old people in the family that many of the Jin family's inheritance are related to the five elements of yin and yang, especially in the five elements. ”

I nodded silently and didn't say anything more.

He Wenqin continued to follow the line of thought just now, after the Jin family moved south, although they built a mansion in Annam (the ancient name of Vietnam), they no longer lived in Annam, and from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to the 45th year, they were mainly active in Xiangxi, until He Baoyuan's death, and did not leave the country.

He Wenqin has also heard about the extinction of the Jin family in 47, but he doesn't know much, only that in the two years from 45 to 47, there was a person named Jin Bofan who often walked around in Xiangxi, this person was the fourteenth generation head of the Jin family, and Jin Yunfeng, the fortieth generation head of the Jin family, was still alive at that time.

He Wenqin once heard his father He Rujin say that Jin Bofan was urgently appointed by Jin Yunfeng as the head of the next generation of the family before going to Xiangxi, and the reason is unknown.

In April 1947, he personally came to He's house and had a secret conversation with He Rujin, and the two went to Annan together in May of that year.

Since then, He Wenqin has never seen his father again.

In July 47, several elders of the Ho family took him to the jungle of Saigon to welcome back a corpse, and when Ho Wenqin saw the corpse, the corpse was wrapped in layers of white cloth, and a large amount of incense powder was sprinkled on the cloth, but he could still smell the stench of rotting flesh.

In September 47, the Jin family was wiped out, and the He family urgently withdrew from the country and moved to Myanmar. In Ho Wenqin's memory, the Ho family seems to have had a family business in Myanmar, and after they moved there, they lived a stable life without worrying about food and clothing.

At the beginning of 48 years, the He family had found someone to do a ritual, saying that it was to overtake the undead, but the undead failed to exceed, and all the monks who went to practice disappeared without a trace overnight.

He Wenqin recalled that when the mages went to the He family that day, the He family had set up a banquet to wash the dust for the mages, but the banquet had just been set up, and the He family was about to invite the mages to the table, but they found that the rooms used to house the mages were all empty, and there were still some magic weapons brought by the mages in the room, but there was no one in sight.

He Wenqin was on the scene at that time, and he remembered very well that every room looked like no one had ever lived there, and the bedding and bed sheets were all neat, but in the air, there was an amazing stench.

On the same day, several elders of the He family who were in charge of the banquet also disappeared. The next day, the He family mobilized all the members to carry the corpse brought back from Lao Jin's house to the dense forest and burn it.

Later, He Wenqin suspected that the body brought back from Lao Jin's family was likely to be his father He Rujin.

Since the corpse was burned, the He family began to be green and yellow, and almost never added a new child, and occasionally a child came to the world, either died of heat plague not long after birth, or died in an accident when he was three or four years old. Later, the head of the He family established a family rule, the men of the He family were not allowed to have their own children, and all adult women must marry before the age of twenty-one.

Later, He Jiayun returned to the border, and when the old family master passed away, there was a huge He family, and only He Wenqin was left alive.

He Wenqin said that when he was dying, the old family owner told him that He Rujin and Jin Bofan stayed in Annan for half a month, and then went to the Bayu area, and told him never to go to Bayu or Xiangxi.

It is strange to say that the old family owner did not let He Wenqin go to Bayu Xiangxi, but He Jiayun's activity area is mainly in these two places, in the early years, he first stayed in Bayu for a long time, and then went to Xiangxi, and has been stationed there until now.

He Wenqin tried to get in touch with He Jiayun, originally wanting to take He Jiayun back to Myanmar to live together, but He Jiayun told him that if the two brothers got too close, neither of them would live past the age of 60, and at the same time told He Wenqin not to go to the old house of the Jin family.

(End of chapter)