I followed Master into the house, only to find that on either side of the room sat an old man in his sixties, one of whom was tall and thin, with clear eyebrows. The other is a five-short figure, although its appearance is not good, but it has big ears and a big nose, and it is very rich.

Both of them were wearing an old-fashioned tunic suit, the tall one was dressed in clean white, and the leather shoes were also white. The stubby one was all black, including his shoes and glasses.

When I first saw them, I thought I saw black and white.

At this time, my master pulled me in front of him and said to the people in the room, "This is my apprentice, Zuo Youdao, and the next generation supervisor of the old Huang family. ”

After finishing speaking, Master introduced me to the three people in front of me one by one.

The old man Kuiwei sitting in the center of the room is the contemporary head of the old Huang family, that is, the "old lady Huang" in Li Daochang's mouth, his name is Huang Wenqin, and like Li Daochang, he was also born in the second year of Xuantong, and when I met him, he was nearly 100 years old.

The other two are the grandsons of Mrs. Huang, the one who wears white clothes and looks outstanding is called Huang Changrong, and the one who wears black clothes and looks rich is called Huang Changsheng, after a hundred years of Mrs. Huang, he will become the next head of the old Huang family.

By the way, the woman who drove us before was called Huang Yulian, and she was Huang Changsheng's biological daughter. Huang Changrong also has a son named Huang Yuzhong, and after Huang Changsheng passed away, Huang Yuzhong was the next generation of the head of the family.

Since Huang Yuzhong was still studying in Jiangsu at the time, I didn't see him when I first came to Lao Huang's house in Northeast China.

I heard that I am a doorman who keeps the right line, when Mrs. Huang looked at me, his eyes were much gentler than before, but that sharpness seemed to have already melted into his nature, and when I looked at him, I still felt that there were two steel knives hidden in those eyes, but just now, these two knives were sharp, but now they are wearing scabbards.

Later, my master introduced Liang Houzai to them, and after learning that Liang Houzai was Li Liang's disciple, Mrs. Huang also became polite to Liang Houzai.

Huang Changrong and Huang Changsheng moved four chairs to the wing room not far away, my master and Mrs. Huang sat in the center of the room on the left and right, Huang Changrong and Huang Changsheng sat on either side of them, as for me, Liang Houzai and Li Daochang, the order of the seats was not so particular, and they could sit anywhere.

After the master sat down, he asked Mrs. Huang, "Where is the great monk?" ”

Old Lady Huang sighed and said, "Master Chengyun has already gone to Baishuidu to guard it. Master Chai, you are here, this time, our old Huang family is in big trouble! ”

"I know, it's very clear in the letter." As he spoke, the master lit the pot and smoked silently.

I heard the old lady Huang continue: "Alas, that letter, how to say it. At that time, I didn't expect things to be so big, so in some things, I still hid something from Master Chai. ”

My master smiled and didn't speak.

At this time, Li Daochang said to Mrs. Huang: "Old lady, you better talk to us, tell us what happened, we are all old relationships, everyone knows the roots, you don't need to hide it all the time." ”

When Li Daochang spoke, I put my eyes on his face again, the light in the room was very bright, and the space was open, and there were no large shadows. Originally, I thought that I should be able to see his face clearly this time, but when my eyes fell on his face, I found that there was an extra straw hat on his head, and the light could not penetrate the brim, and cast a heavy shadow on his face, and I still couldn't see his face clearly.

Hearing Daochang Li's words, Old Lady Huang sighed again: "Okay, but today I will shake things out, you have to help me keep this secret, don't tell it." ”

As he spoke, he stared at Daochang Li with a very vigilant gaze, and it seemed that in the whole room, the only thing that reassured Old Lady Huang was Daochang Li, and as for a few of us, it was not among his worries.

Until Daoist Li nodded and said, "Don't worry, no one will say it." ”

Old Lady Huang also nodded, and talked about some things that had happened in Lao Huang's house since the beginning of last month.

If it had been three years ago, I would not have been able to say the content of those words, after all, as the supervisor of the old Huang family, in many cases, I have to help them keep some secrets. But now, our profession is different from the past, and many secrets of the past are harmless even if they are excavated, because some of these secrets are nowhere to be verified, and some of them no longer exist.

Old lady Huang's words were very long, and he said them very trivially. Although I can remember the general content of that paragraph, after such a long time, it is almost impossible for me to restore his words in detail, so I still plan to split the content of Mrs. Huang's words, and slowly restore the experience of the old Huang family during that time in the order of the time of the incident.

Huang Yulian told me before that during the Guangxu period, the old Huang family found a dragon vein in the old forest in the northeast, and since then, they have washed their hands in a golden basin and started a serious business.

She is not completely wrong, when the old Huang family was in the Guangxu period, they did find some things in the old forest in the northeast, and they did change careers at that time.

But after the old Huang family changed careers, it was not a serious business in Huang Yulian's mouth, at least in that era, it was not a serious business, but in modern times, their family's industry is already legal. As for what they do, this involves a secret of the old Huang family, and it is really inconvenient for me to say.

I'll focus on what the old Huang family found in the forest, which is not a dragon vein at all, but an evil tomb. When the tomb was first discovered, the people of the old Huang family went down to see it, and the old lady Huang also heard from his ancestors that the whole tomb was an extremely long tomb, running through the east and west along the mountain range, at least hundreds of miles long.

Hundreds of miles, just an approximation, in fact, no one knows how long this tomb is, because the people who went down to the tomb back then, only one person came out alive, the old Huang family at that time was still the old Su family, the person who came out of the tomb was called Su Santong, he was the head of the Su family at that time, in the northeast land, he was also a famous thief, because the name had a "three" word, the people in the same way gave him a nickname, called him the third master.

Regarding the deeds of the third master back then, Mrs. Huang did not mention much, but said that the third master brought out a set of statues of the golden-topped monk from the tomb, which were five fist-sized white jade human-faced statues, each of which was in the shape of a bald and enlarged robe, and a layer of gold leaf was pasted on the top of the head, so it was called the golden-topped monk.

When he left the tomb, he ordered gunpowder to be planted in the woods and blew up the entrance to the tomb, which caused a fire that burned for seven days and seven nights.

After the mountain fire was extinguished, the third master took his clansmen to build a house in the neighboring mountain, which is the prototype of today's Huang family ancestral hall.

In the second year of this incident, the Su family changed their surname to Huang, and a year later, the third master ordered people to dig a dungeon in the Baishuidu generation, and there were five stone gates in the dungeon, and five golden-domed monk statues were the keys to these five doors.

Ten years after the construction of the underground palace, the third master disappeared, and in the same year, a small-scale earthquake occurred near Baishuidu, and there was a landslide on the hill where the evil tomb was located, revealing two natural stone pillars more than one person high at the position that should have been the top of the mountain.

Coincidentally, not long after, a study tour Xiucai got lost in the forest and strayed into the old house of the Huang family, saw the two stone pillars on the mountain, thought it was a dragon horn, and speculated that there should be a dragon vein under this mountain.

Later, this matter was publicized by Xiucai, and everyone thought that there was a dragon vein behind the ancestral house of the old Huang family, and this statement has been used to this day, only the older generation of the old Huang family knows what is under the two "dragon horns".

Speaking of which, there is one thing that makes me puzzled, at that time, the matter of the old Huang family guarding the dragon vein was rumored all over the city, after all, it was the dragon vein, and it was impossible for the court not to hear the rumors. But listening to what Mrs. Huang said, the imperial court at that time didn't seem to care about this matter and never asked. And that Xiucai, and the person who spread this rumor later, mostly died.

After that, generations of the old Huang family stayed in this ancestral house until the wilderness became a village, and the ancestral house became a clan ancestral hall.

Old lady Huang thought that in his lifetime, the matter of the evil tomb should not be known, and this secret would be told to the next generation of family head Huang Changsheng before he died, and in the next few decades, Huang Changsheng carefully covered this secret.

But at the beginning of last month, the gold-topped monk was stolen.

Although the gold-topped monk is the heirloom of the old Huang family, except for the old lady Huang, no one in the family knows about its existence at all, let alone people outside the family.

When Old Lady Huang built that house a few decades ago, he built the golden-topped monk directly in the wall, except for himself, even if others knew that there were so many white jade monks in this world, it was impossible to know where they were hidden.

But at the beginning of last month, Mrs. Huang went to the provincial capital, and when she came back, she found that a hole had been opened in the wall of her house, and the white jade monk was nowhere to be found.

This frightened Mrs. Huang, and he contacted my master as soon as possible, but because the Jinding monk was involved in the secrets of the old Huang family, many things were not easy to say directly, but he just said that something happened to the Huang family and asked my master to come here.

But my master put all his mind on teaching at that time, and when he saw that Mrs. Huang was hiding on the phone, he didn't say anything when he asked him anything, and asked him if the situation was serious, and he just said that it was not too serious. After that, my master said that he had something to do, and asked the old lady to contact Daochang Li of Qingfeng Temple.

It was for such a reason that Li Daochang was invited to the Northeast by Mrs. Huang. But although Daochang Li's Taoism is high, he does not have my master's connections in the rivers and lakes, and the old lady feels that relying on Daochang Li alone, he may not be able to find the Jinding monk, so he invited the respected Master Chengyun to come.