Daochang Li paused for a moment, and then said, "Could it be that someone gave the old lady a dream?" ”

My master smacked his lips and said, "It's possible, but it's not very likely." I think that the old lady may have fallen for someone else's technique, and this technique may not have been lifted yet. Old lady, do you remember where the family tree was placed? ”

Although Old Lady Huang's face became a little ugly, fortunately, her tone was calm: "It's behind the plaque in the ancestral hall." ”

Master waved at Liang Houzai and me, "You two go and have a look." ”

Liang Houzai and I didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly ran to the front of the ancestral hall, Liang Houzai rushed to the door beam in three steps, my body was too heavy, I didn't dare to climb to the door beam, for fear of crushing the door beam, so I stood on the ground and looked up at Liang Houzai.

Liang Houzai focused his eyes on the gap between the plaque and the door beam, and observed it for most of the day, before he jumped down and shook his head at me: "Nothing, and the plaque is very clean around it, there is no dust at all, apparently someone has cleaned it recently." ”

I ran back to the back bed with Liang Houzai and told Master the true nature of our discovery.

As soon as Old Lady Huang heard that there was nothing behind the plaque, his face became even more ugly, and even his eyes did not have the sharpness he had before, and the whole person collapsed on the back of the Taishi chair like a deflated ball.

The master lowered his head and pondered for a while, then asked Old Lady Huang, "Have you cleaned that plaque before?" When was it cleaned up? ”

Old Lady Huang sighed: "Yesterday afternoon. ”

The Master asked him again, "What did you do after cleaning up the plaque, and did you come into contact with anyone?" ”

I saw Mrs. Huang shaking her head: "I can't remember." ”

Before, Mrs. Huang told us about the things that happened in the Huang family during this time, and he could clearly remember the very subtle details, but he couldn't remember what happened yesterday afternoon!

Li Daochang said with some worry at this time: "It seems that the old lady has indeed fallen for someone else's technique. In my opinion, let's let the old lady go to Master Chengyun first. ”

My master nodded: "Well, there is no other way for now. Old lady, the yin and yang drum should be handed over to me for safekeeping. ”

Old lady Huang nodded helplessly and said to my master, "The yin and yang drum is still in the old place. ”

After that, my master said to Huang Changsheng and Huang Changrong: "Changsheng, you take the old lady to Baishuidu to find Master Chengyun. Changrong, you go and inform Bao Useful and ask him to be on guard around the ancestral hall. ”

After saying that, my master pulled me and Liang Houzai towards the door.

Daochang Li also got up from his seat, as if he wanted to follow us, but my master turned his head and said to him when he was about to go out: "Daochang Li, in the past few days, I am afraid that this side of the ancestral hall will not be peaceful, so you should stay here to support the scene." ”

Hearing my master's words, Li Daochang took back his right foot that he had just stepped out of, he first nodded at my master, and then asked my master, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'll take a look at the teeth."

As he spoke, the master stepped out of the threshold, and then walked out of the backyard gate of the ancestral hall like a gust of wind, heading straight for the hill behind.

Liang Houzai and I also trotted all the way to keep up with my master.

Out of the back door of the Huang family ancestral hall, you can see the mountain road spreading down from the top of the mountain at a glance.

From a distance, it is an ordinary mountain path, and occasionally some green vegetation can be seen on the road, and the trees on both sides of the road are pulled out by the early morning sun to create slender shadows, which are intertwined to form a huge shade on the mountain road.

There are indeed a lot of trees growing on both sides of the road, and when you look at them from a distance, they don't seem to be anything out of the ordinary. But when I walked in, I found that these trees were all yin and yang trees, with lush branches and leaves on the south side, and only bare trunks on the north side, and not a single leaf grown.

When the wind blows, the leaves on the south side immediately rattle, but the trunks on the north side do not move.

Not only on both sides of the mountain road, but also on the entire mountain, there are such yin and yang trees, giving people a feeling of extreme incongruity.

At this time, Master stopped and looked towards the top of the mountain, and I walked up to Master and asked Master, "This mountain is so weird, it must be famous in the local area, right?" ”

My master first said, "Huh? After a while, he turned his head and said to me: "The old Huang family has set up a maze array in this place, and you can only go up the mountain through the back door of the ancestral hall, and you can't go up the mountain from other places, and this mountain is not much different from other mountains from a distance." ”

I asked Master again, "What the hell is the old Huang family doing, and how can they set up the Ecstasy Array?" ”

My master began to walk towards the mountain again, and said to me: "Didn't the Yulian girl say that the old Huang family went through four identities from the Yuan Dynasty to the Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, including salt merchants, ringing horses, market thieves, and thieves. But don't think that the old Huang family is an ordinary smuggler of salt and an ordinary ringing horse. In the Yuan Dynasty, ninety percent of the world's private salt came from the hands of the ancestors of the Huang family. When they made a sound horse, they were also in charge of the world's first horse gang, not only robbing the rich and helping the poor in Shandong, but also providing war horses for the major rebel armies at that time, when Zhu Yuanzhang swept the iron cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty, more than half of the war horses in the army were also provided by the ancestors of the old Huang family. When they were thieves, they seldom stole anything, but what they stole was actually people. ”

"Stealing?" I was a little surprised and said, "They're human traffickers?" ”

Master smiled and shook his head again: "In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch party caused chaos in the world, do you know Jinyiwei?" The East Factory and the West Factory know, right? When the ancestors of the old Huang family entered Hebei, it happened to be the year when Wang Zhi led the West Factory. At that time, Wang Zhi was in power, and with the West Factory in hand, he wantonly brutalized the ministers of the DPRK and China. The ancestors of the Lao Huang family stole people, in fact, they tried to infiltrate the West Factory, rescue the ministers who were wrongfully arrested, and then let the people on the rivers and lakes hide these ministers...... You know Wang Zhi, right? ”

At first glance, when I heard the name Wang Zhi, I felt that I was really impressed, but after thinking about it carefully, I couldn't remember what this person was doing, so I shook my head at my master.

My master looked at me helplessly and said in a cliché: "I want to read more history books when I have time." ”

I also looked at my master helplessly, and said to myself, how can I usually have time to read that kind of book.

Master looked at me, sighed, and then shifted the topic to the identity of the old Huang family: "In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the old Huang family were originally Li Zicheng's subordinates, and later the Qing army entered the customs and Li Zicheng was defeated, so they fled to the northeast and started to find the dragon point. At that time, the old Huang family could be regarded as a new force of the anti-Qing forces. ”

Speaking of this, the master stopped again and looked in the direction of the top of the mountain for a while, before continuing to say to me: "From the Yuan Dynasty to the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the status of the old Huang family in the rivers and lakes was very high. ”

After saying this, the master stopped opening his mouth and quietly walked towards the top of the mountain.

This mountain is not high in the first place, and after walking along the mountain road for ten minutes, you will reach the top of the mountain.

Looking at the top of the mountain on the mountain road, you can only see a very lush forest growing on the top of the mountain, but when you go to the top of the mountain, you find that in the center of this forest is an artificially built platform, and a half-person high wall is built with bluestone in the center of the platform, and in the wall, there are two stone pillars that are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.

Use the word "pestle tooth" to describe these two stone pillars, in fact, it is very vivid, the stone pillar is directly oblique from the ground, the bottom is thick, the more up the narrower, one of the stone pillars has been broken into two, the other is just in the middle of a wide and deep crack, the whole is relatively complete, its top is very sharp, the column body is also slightly curvature, looking at it from a distance, is it not like a blue-gray fang?

Master crossed the fence and came to one of the macles, stretched out his hand and touched the crack in the tines, and immediately frowned.

I also climbed into the wall, and I also touched the crack on my teeth like Master, but I didn't feel anything special except that the section of the crack was a little rough.

At this time, Master said to me, "Concentrate the Qi field of the Black Water Coffin on your fingers. ”

I tried to resonate with the Black Water Coffin, pulled a small strand out of the Black Water Coffin's Qi Field, condensed it on the tip of the index finger of my right hand, and then touched the crack in the tooth with this index finger.

This time, I could vaguely feel a very slight yin qi emanating from the crack in my teeth, that yin qi was too faint, and there was another fainter breath mixed with it, that kind of breath, a bit like the anger of a living person.

My master took out a cigarette stick, lit a pot of dry tobacco, and smoked it slowly as he said to me, "There's something strange about that tomb down there. ”

I asked Master, "The breath on the teeth came from the tomb." ”

Master nodded, then shook his head again: "It's possible, but it's not necessarily. There is a way, a thick load, you look in that direction, the pond a few miles away is Baishuidu. ”

Liang Houzai and I looked in the direction of Master's finger, the visibility of the Huangjiazhuang generation was very high, and although the pond in Master's mouth was far away from us, standing on the top of the mountain, we could still faintly see the luster on the water surface.

The mountain we are on spreads out in an east-west direction, and Mrs. Huang also said that the tomb under the mountain also spreads in an east-west direction, but Baishuidu is due south a few miles away from us.

Can the underground palace near Baishuidu be connected to the evil tomb? How to connect? Could it be that Su Santong dug an underground tunnel several miles long between the underground palace and the evil tomb back then?

The question is, why did Su Santong set up the underground palace so far away from the evil tomb, is it because there is anything special about Baishuidu?

Thinking so in my heart, I moved my eyes to Huangjiazhuang, which is located between Xiaoshan and Baishuidu, and looking down from my position, I could clearly see the whole picture of Huangjiazhuang, which looked like a very ordinary village, except for the ancestral hall in the north of the village, all the bungalows were no different from the houses in other villages.

But such an ordinary village from any angle gave me a very awkward feeling, but I couldn't tell for a moment what made me feel awkward.