I looked at them with a magnifying glass for a long time, but I couldn't see their faces clearly, but I could vaguely make out the buns on their heads.

"The social climate back then wasn't like now, where adult men hardly had long hair." Master Cao said very firmly. "These two people are either laymen or Taoist priests."

The time coincides with the record of Wengen County Chronicle, when people traveled to other places were used to settle in the hall or chamber of commerce, maybe they came from the Central Plains and settled in the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce, and happened to meet the celebration of the chamber of commerce, and then took this photo.

If these two are the "Zhongzhou Qi Refiners" mentioned in the county annals, will there be a record in the Chamber of Commerce, so that we can find out where and which sect they are from?

We decided to split up, and Master Lu went to the police department to find out if they had a detailed record of the operation in July of May Fourth, and to see if there were any living parties, especially the whereabouts of that Wu Qing. After all, at that time, if you want to be a soldier and a policeman, you were at least 18 years old, and 50 years have passed, and now you are still in your 60s and 70s.

But if you don't have any position, it's very unlikely that you will know the inside story.

And Master Cao and I are in charge of going to the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce, I don't have much experience but fortunately, I am a local, just to lead Master Cao.

The person in charge of the reception of the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce was a little surprised by our combination, and after listening to our intentions, he laughed.

"You're mistaken!" He said, shaking his head. "Our Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce was only established in ninety-five years, and you have to go to the archives to check the affairs of five or more years, right?"

"We're here from the Archives." I'm a little powerless, but think about it, so many things have happened in fifty years, and the average archival retention period has passed, except for the archives, where would be idle enough to keep things from decades ago?

"Are there any members of your chamber of commerce who have participated in the old man who participated in the previous Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce?" Master Cao continued to ask.

"We don't know."

"If it's convenient, can you tell us about the members of the Chamber of Commerce who are over sixty-five years old?" Master Cao asked.

Sixty-five years old is the most basic hurdle, if you are not even fifteen years old, then it is impossible to get in touch with these things, and it is impossible to know any inside story. Just like Xu Youde, he just remembered that such an incident happened, but the specific situation was all heard later, and there were no details at all.

"It's not convenient, is it?" The staff hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to ask the person in charge of the chamber of commerce.

Not surprisingly, he immediately rejected Master Cao's request.

"We have to be accountable to the members of the Chamber of Commerce."

"That'...... Excuse me. Master Cao nodded, this is also what it should mean. Do you need this photo? Can be preserved as part of the history of your chamber. He asked, smiling.

After decades of frenzied westernization, the empire has recently suddenly begun a wave of search for folk traditions, which I have seen in some opinion articles say is a sign of the gradual building of national self-confidence. For the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce, even if it has no inheritance relationship with the previous one, it is definitely a good thing to be able to pull such a banner and put gold on his face.

The person in charge of the Chamber of Commerce really hesitated, and finally nodded: "Then thank you." ”

Our photo was reproduced from the Provincial Archives, and the clarity was not very high, but it was enough for them to enlarge it and hang it in the hall to decorate the façade.

"Speaking of which, when we were founded, we invited a few old people to help with advice, and they probably knew a little bit about it, right?" The person in charge said suddenly. "I just don't know if they're still there after all these years?"

We were grateful to get the contact information from him, two of the four elderly people have died, and the remaining two, one of them is in the nursing home, hemiplegic stroke and has no ability to speak, and the other one, whose ears are very back, needs to use a very loud voice to talk to him.

We bought some things and pretended to be from the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce to visit him, but we didn't ask anything.

He was eighty-seven years old and his mind was not very clear.

"My father's health was not very good the year before last, and he used to insist on vomiting every night, but after he couldn't do it for a few years, his body collapsed immediately. The Chamber of Commerce was able to come and see him, and he would be happy to find out. "His son, who is actually in his sixties, is very grateful that we came to visit the old man.

"We're looking for the person in this picture." Master Cao said. "This year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, and we would like to do something to commemorate our ancestors with the entrustment of our members. I don't know if you've seen this photo or the person on it? ”

He put on reading glasses and looked at it carefully for a long time, but the clarity of the photo itself was very problematic, and with the level of photography at that time, it could be seen that it was really hell.

"I don't know anyone." It took a long time for him to speak.

Master Cao smiled, he probably didn't have any intention of finding useful information from here, but just used this matter to shorten the distance between the two sides.

"I wonder if you have any old photos in your house? Maybe some of them are very historically commemorable, and it would be a pity to be annihilated. ”

The other party really didn't refuse, and after making us wait for a while, he came out with a cardboard box.

Most of them are old photos in black and white, some of them are very small and can barely see the people on them, I have no way to understand, what is the point of rushing such a small photo?

Master Cao patiently rummaged through it, and really let him find something.

"It's an interesting picture." He said with a smile. "Has Ling Zun ever studied the Tao before? Nowadays, such photos are rare. ”

In the photo, the middle-aged old gentleman was standing with three Taoist priests, and there was probably no opportunity to take pictures at that time, and the expressions of several people looked unnatural.

In the lower corner of the photo is a number, five nine, which should be the year the photo was taken.

Because of the movement to destroy the Buddha and the Tao, many people have destroyed things related to the Buddha and the Tao, and it is really unusual to be able to leave such a photo.

Could these three Taoist priests have something to do with Heihezi?

All of a sudden, my mind became tense.

"This picture?" Once again, the old man put on his reading glasses. "Oh, these are some of my father's brothers."

"Senior brother? Is he a layman? Master Cao asked with great interest.

There are many definitions of layman, but the strictest one is that only those who have worshipped a teacher in a Taoist temple and left a record are called laymen.

"That was many years ago, and this picture must have been sandwiched between other photos and not burned at the time." The old man shook his head with emotion. "My father is a registered disciple of the Shangzhen Academy on Lushan Mountain in the west of Biling."

"At that time, were there a lot of people in the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce?" Master Cao asked. "There are also two Taoist priests in that photo before, maybe it's worth mentioning?"

"I don't know." The old man replied. "But when I was a child, my father used to say that his brothers and sisters were very capable. I'm not the kind of liar who travels, I argued with him many times when I was a child, and I remember it very well. ”

We picked out some old photos and retook them, and left there with great gratitude, but in fact, I knew very well that Master Cao was only going to take that one photo.

"Master Cao?" As soon as I went out, I asked excitedly.

"I'll talk about it later." He nodded.