Chapter Seventy-Four: The Old Past

Xiajiapu in Caozhuang is a small village with beautiful scenery, because it is close to Qiandao Lake, so there is lake water around the village, although it is called Xiajiapu, it is actually a water town. The www.biquge.info of the pen is the same scenery as the famous Wuzhen.

Yu Yiping: Under the guidance of Xia Zhong, they came to this quiet mountain village. There are only about 100 households in the village. The distribution is staggered. Most of these families built their houses on the water of the lake that runs through the village. Each house has a wall facing the lake, and a staircase protrudes from under the window, connecting the lake at one end and the house at the other. Wooden boats became the main means of transportation. The sound of babbling oars came and went.

As soon as they entered the village, they hired a wooden boat, got on it, and sat in the cabin to watch the scenery on both sides of the lake, as if they were in a painting.

When the small wooden boat rowed to a bend, he heard Xia Zhong say, "It's here!" My house is up there. With that, Xia Zhong stood up and jumped ashore. A small courtyard with white walls and black tiles appeared in front of him. The horse-head wall and brick-carved lintel of the Hui school building immediately attracted everyone's attention. It can be seen that Xia Zhong's family background is strong.

When I entered the door, I saw an ancient well in the middle of the courtyard of the courtyard. There are deep traces of rope pulling at the mouth of the well, which is a typical two-entry courtyard building. The doors and windows of the wings on all four sides have fine woodcut patterns.

Xia Zhong let everyone into the middle living room, and a table of eight immortals was placed in the center. There are wooden chairs and coffee tables on the left and right sides. There is also a three-star portrait of Fu Lu Shou on the wall. There is also a Chinese painting splashed with ink on the main wall facing the door, and there is a couplet on both sides of the painting. Everything reflects that this is a well-off family.

"You can guess that my family is a family with a solid background, in fact, our ancestors are indeed official eunuchs, and when I arrived at my grandfather's generation, the family was in the middle of the road, but it was also worry-free, much better than the surrounding farmers. The whole Xia family shop knows that our family is well-off. Seeing that everyone was looking at the furnishings at home, Xia Zhong made an introduction.

"I'm afraid this mansion won't be lived in for more than a hundred years, right?" Yu Yiping became interested in the house.

"You guessed it right, our house is really a century-old house."

"It's all well repaired and maintained, and the house can be lived in for another 100 years."

"It's just that this house is not good! Kill you! Xia Zhong's voice suddenly deepened.

"Does it have anything to do with the house?"

"Since I was a child, I have heard from the elders that it was this house that attracted bandits, and they all thought that our family had thousands of wealth, but in fact we were already a family that relied on the sky for food. Although he lives in this century-old mansion, he rests at sunrise and sunset like the people around him. ”

"So it's the deep mansion compound that attracted robbers? It's just for money, how can you commit a murder case? ”

"I have always been puzzled by this question, I was only three years old at the time of the crime, I don't remember anything, but I heard from the old people in the village that it was because of the strong resistance of my family, so they didn't do anything, and even said that it was not the robbers but the enemies who came to seek revenge."

"Since it's a case of destroying the door, how can you be left alive again?" Yu Yiping has always wanted to ask Xia Zhong this question.

"That night, I played in the yard of my neighbor's house, and when I was tired, I slept in the corner of my neighbor's yard and escaped this catastrophe."

"There is a providence in the dark!"

"As soon as I think of these old things, I think, God must have deliberately left me alive to avenge my parents and relatives!" Xia Zhong clenched his fists as he spoke.