I let out a sigh: "Then what are you busy with, Xiamen has been the frontier for decades after the liberation, maybe it is really the construction of something secret requisitioned, don't think about it if you can't get it back." ”

Shi Ting said: "Don't want to take it back, but the other party is not too dark, and later compensated us at a price much higher than the market." You see the time when this detailed map was drawn, in October of the 43rd year of the Republic of China, that is, in October 1954, it happened to be the time when my relatives left the mainland, and in September of that year, they began to engage in public-private partnerships. ”

I squinted at Shi Ting: "Have liberated your relatives and still have the Republic of China year name?" Pack him up and deserve it! ”

Shi Ting was impatient: "Don't interrupt, look at the picture!" ”

I teased him, "You don't mean it's a treasure map, do you?" Watching TV stupid and thinking about money and going crazy? ”

Shi Ting said seriously: "Of course I have a basis, our family has always had a legend for a hundred years, we have an immortal heirloom, passed down secretly, but few people have really seen it." ”

I said, "This kind of from the ancestors is loved by many children of big families, and they also love to make up this kind of story. ”

Shi Ting disagreed: "My ancestors have been regarded as traitors like Wu Sangui for a long time, and the folk reputation is also very bad, and not many people show off before the 21st century. Listen carefully, I'll finish first. After the recovery of Taiwan during the Kangxi period, a large part of our family went to Taiwan. After Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, he began to seize a large amount of land and property in Taiwan and incorporated it into his name, occupying almost half of the reclaimed land in southern Taiwan, and occupying it for more than 200 years. This was not enough, and later he was so greedy that he did not let go of the fishermen in Penghu, who had no land and no land, and extorted rules and gifts from the fishermen to collect them into their own pockets, and like the Zheng family at the beginning, they collected protection fees from passing merchants at sea like pirates, robbed them if they didn't give money, and killed them if they dared to resist, which lasted until the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. ”

"The Shi family is notoriously greedy, with historical limitations and flaws." I grinned and continued to tease.

The waiter brought up the cold dishes, Shi Ting shut up, and waited for the waiter to leave before continuing: "I mean that our family followed the ancestors to collect countless fortunes, which is really too wide, although most of the money collected by these regular people was sent to Beijing to the hereditary marquis, and our clansmen did not get the lion's share, but the amount of wealth accumulated in Taiwan for a long time is also considerable." ”

"The big family multiplied and flourished, and in the end, the same clan may not be the same clan, and we have many branches. After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese took over Taiwan, and our group crossed from Taiwan to settle in Xiamen, so it was actually not the same race as the Shi family in Xiamen. As soon as we say this family heirloom, the old people have passed it on to me for only four generations, so I can't go wrong. After the internal crossing, it coincided with the modern troubled times, and the generations were inevitably chaotic, and slowly it was really just a legend, losing its specific basis. ”

"My ancestor is a giant businessman in the former Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, my great-grandfather's business talent is average, and he can only do it well, he has almost never interfered in business in his life, and he went to Nanyang to study architecture, which I can be regarded as inheriting my ancestor." Sting pointed to the plan: "This should be painted by my great-grandfather." ”

I looked at the picture and asked Sting, "How many sons did your great-grandfather have?" Who ran away with this picture? ”

Shi Ting said: "In fact, it is nothing to take anyone to run, my great-grandfather's four sons, all of whom were in their teens at the time, ran out and did not intend to never come back." After all, the family business and real estate are all in China, and the five and fourth years began to engage in public-private partnerships, thinking that they would go out to hide from the limelight and come back once it was too peaceful, so they took away the two eldest children at that time, for fear that they would be conscripted if they stayed in the country, after all, although the Korean War was truce, it had not yet fully withdrawn the army, and Xiamen shouted every day that it wanted to liberate Taiwan, and it was not worry-free, so the motive of taking away was actually relatively simple. ”

"But if you really want to expand it, it's not very authentic, my grandfather is the third and fourth masters, and my great-grandmother is the second room, of course, the status is different, once something happens, naturally I will stay and take on the responsibility of defending the land. Later, the government talked with their mothers, requisitioned villas for the people, and replaced them with their current old mansions, which can be regarded as proper resettlement. My great-grandfather took his two regular army sons to Nanyang, and after a few decades, the eldest and second grandfathers inherited the genes of Gaozu, and they were quite successful in business, and they became giants overseas, while my great-grandfather died suddenly in the seventies, but he did not wait for the reform and opening up. ”

I asked, "When they left, and they used their ancestral property to make money abroad, why were they embarrassed to come back and fight with the two brothers for property?" It's good that I didn't ask them to liquidate overseas ancestral property. ”

Shi Ting said: "Speaking of overseas and domestic inheritance, in fact, their brothers still have a fair distribution plan, but these properties currently nominally belong to the two overseas branches." When the policy was restored, my grandfather and the fourth master went to ask for confiscation of property, but no one paid attention to it at all, so they had to notify the uncle and the second master to come back to do it, and the overseas Chinese identity really worked. As far as I know, many of the storefronts in the alley on Zhongshan Road have been transferred to my father and a few cousins, and I am afraid that the money from the sale of this villa will be able to give them a part. ”

My eyes widened: "I can't see it!" They're all billionaires! For so many years, I thought that your family was working for relatives, but it turned out to be your common property, which is really low-key! ”

Shi Ting said with a wry smile: "Our family is used to keeping a low profile, so I believe in the legends within the family. He unfolded the map and looked at me, "Look closely, there's nothing strange about it." ”

I didn't think anything special when I looked left and right, and I picked up the map and looked at the light, but I didn't see any tricks. Shi Ting said: "Save it, this picture is worthless in your hands, but I learned this, and I can understand it." If you look at the part that has been cut out, there is a mark in the twenty square meters, without any annotation, which is the only mark in this picture that is not annotated, and this mark is precisely the kind that needs special attention in architecture. ”

"It's a very old marker, now architecturally abandoned, and I've been there, and there used to be a well, but it's been filled in for decades," Sting continued. ”

I looked at Shi Ting suspiciously: "If this is a very important picture, how can your relatives not know anything about it, and even copy it and take the initiative to send it to you?" ”

"I think this picture has always been with those title deeds, and it is difficult to attract attention without warning," Shi Ting said. My great-grandfather died suddenly in the seventies, in his early sixties, and he probably didn't expect his sudden death and he didn't have time to explain. On the other hand, they may also despair about the situation at that time, which was still a period of turmoil for ten years, and I am afraid that I did not expect to come back one day, so I did not have the heart to confess to my children as soon as possible. ”

"And those relatives of mine have multiplied much faster than in our country, my grandfather and fourth grandfather both married and had children later, and it was only the third generation of my generation, and my eldest grandfather and second grandfather are the fourth generation, and their grandchildren are about the same age as my father, and I go to Malaysia to visit relatives, and I am about the same age as I have to call me uncle. And their family style is not rigorous, after the second generation, Chinese will not be very good, and in another generation or two, I am afraid that they will become a Nyonya family. So I doubt that even if the old man confessed something when he was dying, it is also a question whether the children and grandchildren who were by his side at that time could understand and understand. ”

At this time, the hot dishes began to be served, and I went out to call the two girls back, and Shi Ting put away all the materials on the table. Only then did Shi Ting say the most important thing: "So we have to find time to go up and stay for a few days and investigate thoroughly." ”

I hurriedly objected: "I can't get rid of Jiang He now, I can't go up alone with you for a few days, I still have something to do." ”

Shi Ting said: "Didn't I say a long time ago to go together, our two big men are too easy to attract attention." ”

I said, "Why didn't you hold back half a month ago, it's not, you are blind when you are two girls, and you can't see the two of us sneaky?" ”

The two girls came back with a spring breeze on their faces, Jiang He's white shoes were stained with mud, and she gave me a white round stone with a vague smiling face on it.

Xiamen pays attention to the original taste of seafood, this kind of seafood caught on the day has a different kind of fresh sweetness, Jiang He is very interested, and he is very happy to eat.

When I was serving the third hot dish, I suddenly realized a question: "Gulangyu is a small island, and it is unlikely to produce its own fresh water, what did your ancestors do when they dug wells?" ”

Shi Ting was stunned for a moment, looked at the two girls, and then said: "The rich people dig wells for refrigerators, put melon and fruit drinks in baskets and sink them into the wells to cool down. ”

The two girls looked at us strangely, and Shi Ting pushed the boat down the river and invited everyone to go to the island to play. Jiang He and I don't care, anyway, we are resting everywhere, Ding Yao agreed to reach an agreement, so we made an appointment to leave early Saturday morning the day after tomorrow, and Shi Ting was responsible for all the daily necessities, and the friendship of the landlord.

The banquet was very pleasant, because he didn't drink alcohol while driving, and he could turn up the atmosphere so high without drinking, only Shi Ting could do it.

It was already past nine o'clock when he left, and Shi Ting took the time to say to me seriously: "I have something to talk about in person, you know." ”

The moon shines on the sea, illuminating the sea sparkling. The asphalt road by the sea is empty and straight, glowing with cyan light. Jiang He opened the car window to blow the sea breeze and said to me: "I like this artistic conception, the silver and blue world without people, the wind blows the grass, and the autumn insects chirp." ”

I parked the car on the side of the road and sat on the roadside fence with Jiang He facing the sea. The sea water is a few hundred meters away from the tidal flat, because it is a low tide, and the headwind can only see the waves and not hear the sound of the tide.

After being silent for a long time, I turned my head to look at Jiang He, her face was full of moonlight, her forehead was shiny, and she was as holy as a white lotus. Jiang He also raised his head to look at me, and said softly after a while: "Brother Holy Monk, you see that the moon in this imperial garden is bright and the scenery is pleasant, can I accompany my brother to linger and watch it again?" ”

I said: "The four major Buddha's hearts are empty, and the poor monk's thoughts are extinct, and there is no chance to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the world, Amitabha." ”