The old lady threw the melon seed skin in her hand into the brazier, then took out an iron cigarette case from her pocket, twisted out a cigarette, and I immediately handed over my own cigarette, "Come, old man, try this." ”

The old lady was not polite, and took it and looked at it, "Yo, what a smoke, Yuxi." He pulled out one and put the whole box of cigarettes in his pocket.

I asked, "Just now, you kept talking about digging treasures?" Do we have any treasures here? ”

"Don't pretend, aren't you kid here too?"

"I'm really not, I'm going to visit relatives, and I'm staying here for two days."

The old lady looked at me for a long time, "It's not good, it's a waste of effort, and in the end, the bamboo basket will be empty...... From childhood to old age, I have seen this happen a lot. ”

The old lady had something to say, she took two puffs of her cigarette, "Dig treasure digging treasure, it's been a hundred years, and I haven't even dug a bird feather!" ”

A hundred years? My heart moved, and I followed the old lady's words downward, "Old man, I heard that there used to be a big family living here, and the old head of the family was a rich gentleman in the late Qing Dynasty......"

"The rich gentleman is a bear lamb—" the old lady pouted, "I have been swindling outside for most of my life, and all I have brought back to my hometown is dirty money." ”

"Liar?"

"Well, what a god, a fairy or something, wherever you go, where you deceive."

"Old man, you know a lot."

"That's not nonsense, when I married his grandson and nephew, I was already fourteen...... I also saw the tricks played by the old liar, what kind of wall recognition, reaching out to catch birds, I saw it fresh at the time, but when I thought about it later, it was all a trick to fool people. The old lady said disdainfully.

It turned out that she was the younger daughter-in-law of the "rich gentleman", but she was an "old liar" and had no respect at all. Later, I finally figured things out -

The "rich gentry" has been wandering outside for many years, and has indeed accumulated a lot of family wealth, but he has a perverse temperament, and he only guards his own property, and he is reluctant to give even his own children, let alone his relatives. Later, the "rich gentleman" got a serious illness, since the fortune telling, he called all the younger generations of the same generation, said that he had done good things in his life, bad things were not less, and he also leaked the heavenly opportunity, this life ended here, he moved the family house here, it is optimistic about the feng shui here, to the west 100 zhang can be his own ancestral tomb, the yin house has been repaired underground, after he left, three days of burial, seven days of burial...... After that, three years of filial piety to the children, another three years of filial piety to the nephews and nephews, and three young filial daughters to the end......

A few days after the explanation, the "rich gentry" returned to the west. It doesn't matter if he dies, the whole family is in chaos, not because he is grief-stricken and crying, but because everyone has their own little abacus, and they are all playing the idea of "rich gentry" Wanguan family wealth. Now it's okay, there are 30 or 40 households in the direct line of the big family, 2 or 300 people, and it will be lively when you calculate it, and the chickens and dogs will jump for a while, and the world will be restless......

In fact, this is no wonder to others, the so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the "rich gentleman" himself has a bad character, and what kind of offspring can be raised, so when he died, the younger generations all showed their sinister faces, and regardless of the entrustment of "three days of burial and seven days of burial", he was directly put into the coffin and thrown into the ancestral tomb, and then began to fight for his family property. But soon everyone was stupid - they turned over the main house of the "rich gentry", and they didn't see any gold and silver treasures......

Now, everyone has nothing to fight for, and they sit together and wonder where the "rich gentry" has hidden all his family property-

It was said that the old man liked to raise flowers and grass, and they immediately turned over all the garden turf in the house, and there were insects except for the manure below......

It is said that the old man is willing to enjoy the rockery, and they have moved the rockery in several yards to pieces, but they still found nothing......

In the end, some people guessed that the old man would not be ruthless, and hid all his property at the bottom of the thatched pit, and for a while before he died, he always ran to the thatched house if he had nothing to do, but everyone believed it to be true, and hollowed out the thatched pit, and did not see a copper plate......

In short, the family has thought about everything, and has used all the tricks, but they can't find the wealth of the "rich gentry".

In the end, everyone was like a demon, ruthless, simply unveiled the roof of the house, demolished the bricks and tiles, dug down the earth and stones, and even some people suddenly had a whim, digging out the coffin of the "rich gentry" and searching it all over again, and the upper and lower sides of the mansion were also cut into holes, still nothing.

This thing has been going on for several years, and everyone has no gain and gradually gives up, without the support of the male owner, the family road is falling rapidly, and they are divided, some sell their real estate and move their families, and some people are scarce and become desperate...... Time has passed, decades have passed in a hurry, and people have gradually forgotten this once rich family, leaving only the rust of the years and the mottling of time......

But in the past 100 years, even after a few years, some people still come back to "visit relatives", saying that they are "visiting relatives", but in fact, they are still running for the ethereal "family property" - the families who moved away at that time also have their own descendants, and they will naturally tell their descendants about the past...... The previous generation gave up, but the descendants often felt that they were smarter and luckier than the older generation, so they made a comeback and repeated the experience of the previous generation: expectation - disappointment - despair......

This forms a strange circle, every few years someone will come back to toss, every time the toss is restless, black smoke miasma, stirring up the remaining families complaining, so more people move out of here, and finally only the old lady's family is left.

I understand, no wonder this place is so lively now, it should be that more people have heard the rumors and formed a group to come over to "hunt for treasure".

The old lady smoked three cigarettes in a row, and finally grinned, "Young man, I think you are a good person, so I told you so many truths...... Over the years, someone asked me about the past, and I said that of course there is a baby, but it depends on whether you have a fate, whether you have a fate, and you have ...... to see them be poor, and in the end they spent money and made efforts, and Maoer couldn't find one, and I felt that the special cola "

Black Pimple found a makeshift shop in the east and bought five catties of rice and a small bucket of spicy cabbage, which counted as our rations for the past few days, and to my surprise, he also carried back an electric heater, apparently second-hand, with paint and rust on the fan blades.

I helped him move back, but as soon as he turned a corner, he stopped, craned his ears and listened carefully, and said, "Brother, why are you so familiar with the movement of that car?" He craned his neck and looked not far away, and his face was even darker, and the Jetta was parked there......

He put the things in his hand on the ground and ran over there, and when he got closer, he pulled the car door, and bang! I almost pulled the door down, and when I looked inside, there was no one, so angry that I kicked the car a few times, and when I was scolding, a sedan chair drove in the distance and stopped beside him.

A big brother wearing a mink bag got out of the car, and looked at the black pimple, "You want to sell the house?" ”

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