After talking to the two shareholders, Jing Yuan went to Ye Guohua's sister Ye Yinghua first according to the address recorded in the orphanage's archives.

It was an old house in the old city called Xiangchan Lane, which looked crumbling, and there was a sign on the stone wall next to the gate that read "Ye House".

The old house didn't even have a doorbell, so he had to knock on the door.

"Knock knock...... Is anyone there? ”

After shouting for a long time, no one answered the door.

An old voice suddenly came from behind him.

"The people of the Ye family have already moved away."

Jing Yuan turned his head, and it was an old man with a slender figure and his teeth had fallen out.

"Hello grandpa." Jing Yuan nodded in greeting.

The old man bowed his head, "Young man, who are you looking for?" ”

"Grandpa, I'm looking for Ms. Ye Yinghua."

The old man's expression was in a trance, as if he was recalling something that had been going on for a long time.

"Yingzi. Yingzi was gone more than fifty years ago. ”

Jing Yuan was stunned, he was gone more than fifty years ago??

"Grandpa, why didn't you die more than fifty years ago, did you die of illness?"

The old man twisted his beard and shook his head.

It's a long story.

Two hundred years ago, Ye Zhai was a big merchant family in Huaicheng.

Originally, it was a fishing business.

But what really made the Ye family make a fortune was to take the road that people at that time hated and wanted, selling opium.

At that time, there were countless addicts in the city, and the opium smoking trend almost plunged the entire society into darkness, completely unaware of where the light was.

Those who have not yet been exposed to opium pray that the gloom will soon dissipate, while those who have been exposed to it will be willing to fall and let it rot.

Ye Langming, the eldest son of the Ye family at the time, Ye Yinghua's great-grandfather, seized this business opportunity and persuaded his father to abandon the fishing industry and devote himself to the opium trade.

Later, Ye Langming became the head of the family.

He colluded with officials and whites to import opium from overseas and sell it to local citizens at a high price, making a profit.

The profit of opium is much higher than that of the original raw seafood, which makes Ye Langming so happy that he can't sleep at night.

Ye Langming was in high spirits at that time, and he was a big celebrity in the city, but whether he was notorious or famous had to be considered.

People who need opium treat him as if they were ancestors, for fear that they will not be able to buy it if they annoy this person.

In order to buy opium, there are not a few who give all their wealth to the Ye family.

The old man frowned and said, their family is a fortune made by stepping on human lives, and a dead man's wealth. I don't know how many families have declined because of opium, but the Ye family has been thriving in this catastrophe.

Later, a campaign was launched, and the whole country cracked down on the flow of opium in the market.

Ye Langming was arrested by the government, and many relatives of the Ye family were also implicated.

His son Ye Tong returned to his old business and returned to fishing, but because of his reputation, the business did not grow bigger. After 30 years of hard work, he gradually got better.

When Ye Tong was forty years old, he bought a piece of land in Xiangchan Lane, built the later Ye House, and the family lived here.

It's a pity that he has never had a son, and finally got a son at the age of fifty, and the family happily named his son Ye Weiwei.

Ye Wei reached the marriageable age and married the woman Liu Ye.

Liu Ye gave birth to two daughters Ye Yinghua and Ye Meihua in a row, and then she didn't get pregnant again after five years, and she had no chance of miscarriage, let alone give birth to a son who would inherit the lineage.

Ye's only mother asked him to secretly find a woman outside to see if he could give birth to an heir.

As a result, I still couldn't get pregnant.

Later, the surrounding neighbors spread that their Ye family was cursed. Because he made money from selling opium back then, he owed too many people debts, so he had to repay the descendants of the Ye family.

So that the Ye family can't give birth to a son, and there is no way to pass on the Ye family. This was a fatal blow to the Ye family at that time.

Ye Tong found a mage to do things and test the feng shui of Ye Zhai again.

On that day, a bald monk carrying a sackcloth bag and wearing a black robe came to Ye's house.

As soon as he entered, he clattered the cane he was holding on to the ground, closed his eyes and felt the dark waves flowing around him.

The mage said that there were ghosts in this house.

There is a ghost buried under the ground of the house, and the husband of the ghost used to be a gentleman in a school, but later became an addict because of his addiction to opium, and his family declined. Her husband later died of opium.

The woman didn't have much ability to raise herself, so she couldn't get through it, so she took her daughter and hanged herself with her husband.

Ye Tong was frightened when he heard it, and when he bought the land, he looked for a feng shui master to see this land, and said that it was a treasure of feng shui, so he happily bought it, but he didn't expect it to be an ominous place! Didn't you get deceived? I'm clamoring to move right away.

The mage waved his hand and said he had a plan.

Then I went into the house and discussed.

After half an hour, Ye Tong's eyes were blurred, and Old Madam Ye was in tears.

A week after the mage came, her sister Ye Meihua suddenly became a fool, saliva flowed out every day, and she sat on the threshold of Ye Mansion with dull eyes, watching her neighbors come and go, and kept laughing.

Ye Yinghua also stopped going out, and the neighbors hardly saw her, and it was rumored that she was seriously ill and collapsed in bed.

Unexpectedly, only a month later, Liu Ye became pregnant.

It's just that on the day their son was born, her sister Ye Yinghua died suddenly.

The Ye family did not invite a doctor to diagnose and treat him, and seemed to be sure that Ye Yinghua was dead.

This incident made the neighbors of Xiangchan Lane talk about it for a long time, and every time they talked about it after tea and dinner, they talked about the internal affairs of Ye Zhai.

Ye Yinghua's funeral was handled quickly, and he was buried within a few days. The death of a young man is not a happy event, of course, how to keep a low profile. No one has even seen a coffin.

After all this was in order, the mage left.

Ye Meihua is still crazy and still sitting on the threshold.

Sometimes, when someone passes by, she will give her some snacks to eat, and she will immediately take them and eat them, and she will cry as she eats.

At the age of eighteen, she was not stupid after marrying into her husband's family. The husband's family is not a rich family, and he just wanted to find a woman to live by, but he didn't expect that Ye Meihua was not stupid, but he was also a clever person, doing some small business by himself, and living a small bourgeois life.

She moved far away from the Ye Mansion, one south of the city and the other north of the city. Usually they never come back during the New Year's holidays, as if Ye Weiwei and his wife have never had such a daughter.

Later, Ye Guohua grew up and left the Ye family, and when the only old couple of Ye died, there was no one in the Ye house. So it's closed all year round.

The old man said that he hadn't seen anyone come back for more than ten years. Of course, the story of the Ye family before Ye Tong was passed down by the grandfather's grandfather, and it is difficult to distinguish how much of it is true or false.

Hearing this story, Jing Yuan showed a surprised expression.

I really can't believe that the Ye family has such a story.

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