The old lady turned her attention to my master again, my master actually didn't prepare much tobacco when he came to the Northeast, and after staying in Huangjiazhuang for so many days, the cigarette pouch looked deflated.

He was probably afraid that the old lady would snatch his cigarette and smoke, so he suddenly said thoughtlessly: "Bao You've demolished your house." ”

The old lady didn't react at once: "What is demolished?" ”

The master extinguished the smoke pot and pinned the cigarette stick behind his waist, and then said to the old lady: "A few days ago, Youdao and Youyi found a bloody array under your old house, and in order to find out where the blood came from, they demolished your house, dug more than ten meters into the ground, and found a very old torture room under your old house. ”

The old lady didn't seem to care about the house being demolished at all, he let out an "oh" and said, "That torture room, I know, it was there more than a hundred years ago, didn't Huangjiazhuang encounter a landslide in the early years, and that torture room was buried at that time." ”

At this time, I couldn't help the curiosity in my heart, and asked the old lady: "Why are there all foreigners' torture instruments in that torture room?" ”

The old lady said: "That torture room was originally built by Lao Maozi, and the northeast side didn't make trouble with the Heavenly Sect, and the Blood Demon Array was built on the basis of the main altar of the Heavenly Sect. It is said that the Tingtian Sect is not an evil sect, but Mao Zi doesn't think so, they think that the Tingtian Sect is a cult, and the women in it are all witches, so they built such a torture room in this place, saying that they want to arrest witches and witches, but the members of the Tingtian Sect are very capable, they can't catch it and can't afford to provoke it, and then they will arrest people from the people casually, get them to the torture room to torture and interrogate, you have also seen those torture tools, as long as it is a person who is locked in, no one can come out alive, The people who were caught in the torture all confessed that they were witches and gods, alas, I have never seen the misery of those people. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Changsheng took a box of cigarettes from his backpack and gave it to the old lady, who was happy at the time, and continued while lighting a cigarette: "Su Sanye came to this place in order to find the tomb, and found that Mao Zi lynched the local people in this place, and killed all the Mao Zi stationed here in a fit of rage. ”

It turned out that Su Santong laid down the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array here, and the original purpose was not to protect the underground palace, but to deal with Lao Maozi.

I said to the old lady again: "When we dug out the torture room, we also found a gelding knife inside, and Senior Brother Bao said that the gelding knife flowed out of the Qing court. ”

In fact, I have a faint hunch in my heart, the matter of the eunuch seems not to be suitable to say it directly, after all, it is a eunuch, it is not good to get the old Huang family to have eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty, for such a family that has lasted for hundreds of years, it seems that it will not be too glorious for the ancestors to have eunuchs.

But I couldn't hold back the curiosity in my heart and told the story anyway.

Hearing my words, Old Lady Huang's expression suddenly became a little embarrassed, he wanted to speak and stopped, and looked at Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang with a vigilant face.

Liang Houzai has been listening to us from the side, when Mrs. Huang looked at him, he was also looking at Mrs. Huang, Houzai was born with a delicate heart, and immediately understood what the old lady meant, and pulled Liu Shangang to the side to chat.

After that, the old lady Huang said: "Alas, in order to oppose the Qing Dynasty, the old Su family will pick out a boy in each generation and send him to the palace as a eunuch, it is said that it is to facilitate the attack on the emperor of the dynasty, but probably because the Qing Dynasty is not exhausted, none of the people sent into the palace by the old Su family can become the close attendant of the Son of Heaven, and there is no way to start the assassination." Su Sanye was actually born as a eunuch, but in the Guangxu period, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and Su Sanye escaped from the palace, so he picked up the old business of touching gold. ”

Old Lady Huang's cigarette ran out quickly, he paused, lit another one, and continued: "I haven't seen the gelding knife you mentioned, but if you think about it, you know that it is probably Su Sanye's thing." Do you know why the old Su family should be surnamed Huang at the beginning, first, it is because the third master has a festival with the Heavenly Sect, and the surname was changed to avoid trouble, and second, Su Sanye recognized a eunuch as his father-in-law in the palace, and the eunuch was surnamed Huang, Su Sanye was taken care of by him since he was a child, and he also brought him to the Northeast to support the elderly when he left the palace. ”

At this time, the master interjected: "No wonder there are python robes and floating dust in the underground palace, it turns out that Su Sanye is a eunuch." ”

I also learned later that it was a python on the official robe, and the robe on the emperor's body had dragon patterns, in fact, the image of the python and the dragon is very close, but the four claws are pythons and the five claws are dragons. I remember that the python pattern on the robe in the dungeon at that time only had four claws.

A person wearing a python robe and holding floating dust, thinking about it, it seems that he can only be a eunuch.

Old Man Huang shook his head and said, "Third Master Su's grade in the palace is very low, and only a big eunuch like Old Eunuch Huang has a python robe given by the emperor. This underground palace should actually be regarded as the tomb of the old eunuch Huang, isn't there a bronze platform behind that wall. ”

Old Lady Huang pointed to the two-meter-high low wall, and continued: "That platform, I guess it should be the coffin of Old Eunuch Huang." It is rumored that after the old lady's death, the corpse was transformed, and he could only be burned to ashes, and the ashes were stored in the bronze coffin to ward off evil spirits. According to Su Sanye, the old eunuch's five lives belong to the earth, and it is the evil soil of the great yin and evil, and it must be topped on the soil after death. I don't know what the top in the mouth of the third master means, I only know that the top on the soil is the king, so this side is also called the palace of the king. ”

waited until the old lady finished speaking, and then the master asked: "The main altar of the Heavenly Sect is under Huangjiazhuang, this matter, Su Sanye won't know about it, right?" ”

The old lady smiled and said: "In fact, the main altar of the Listening Heaven Sect was originally on the side of Changbai Mountain, and later after Su Sanye destroyed Maozi, Huangjiazhuang's generation came to a Yunyou Taoist who was over the age of sixties, and that Taoist was a member of the Listening Heaven Sect, this person is very strange, the old Huang family obviously has a grudge against the Listening Heaven Sect, but he didn't seek revenge, and he also made friends with the third master, and the dark well under the old Huang family was arranged by him and the third master. Even the Blood Demon Array was designed by that Taoist priest back then, and it stands to reason that this formation could have lasted for two hundred years, but it didn't expect it to collapse in fifty years. ”

The master looked a little suspicious, and asked Old Lady Huang again: "Listen to the Heavenly Sect and the old Huang family, one is to protect the Qing Dynasty and the other is to oppose the Qing Dynasty, I heard that most of the members of the Heavenly Sect are from royal relatives and nobles, how can such a person get mixed with Su Sanye?" ”

The old lady shook his head: "In that era, the old Huang family was no longer anti-Qing. At that time, there was a saying in the Northeast that once the Qing Dynasty died, the Northeast became the world of red hairs. In the Central Plains, whether it is governed by people inside the customs or people outside the customs, inside and outside the gates, it is a family of two brothers, no matter who is in charge, the world is still the world of their own family after all. Emotionally speaking, the old Huang family would rather let the Qing Dynasty continue for a few more decades than give up the Northeast to foreigners. ”

At this time, the master seemed to suddenly remember something, and I saw that the master's expression became a little solemn, and he asked the old lady Huang in a tentative tone: "That wandering Taoist priest, is his surname Luo?" ”

I immediately understood what the master meant, he was suspicious that the Taoist priest who came to Lao Huang's house was Luo Zhongxing!

But the old lady also said that when the wandering Taoist came to Huangjiazhuang, he was already over the age of six, how many years have passed, even if that Taoist is really Luo Zhongxing, he has already passed away.

Old lady Huang thought for a while and said, "Oh, how many years ago, I can't remember it clearly." I only remember that the Taoist priest seemed to claim to be a person who did not lose his way, and as for the name, it seems that no one had ever mentioned it. ”

My master asked again, "When did Third Master Su disappear?" ”

Mrs. Huang said: "It seems that I was ten years old, yes, it should be that year, I remember that the third master went back to Jiangsu to worship his ancestors, and he has not come back since." In the same year that the third master disappeared, the wandering Taoist priest also left Huangjiazhuang, and when he left, he also left a scripture, and the method of arranging the bloody array was written on that scripture. ”

"Where is that scroll now?" Master asked.

Old lady Huang sighed: "Alas, there has always been a back bed in the ancestral hall before, but ten years ago, when the ancestral hall ran into the water, a fire burned the back bed, and the scripture was also burned out. ”

The master nodded helplessly, and then stopped talking, and smoked a dry cigarette sullenly.

After about half an hour, Huang Yulian and Huang Changrong came up from the entrance of the cave, saying that there was a thief hole on the wall of the cave fifty meters down, which should have been left by Su Santong back then.

We didn't have much time, so Master told Huang Changrong to prepare the ropes, and everyone went to the grave immediately.

When sliding down the rope, Liang Houzai looked very nervous, he had a fear of heights, the abyss in front of him was pitch black, bottomless, Liang Houzai's two hands holding the rope were trembling, but he still followed us down, not saying a word of nonsense, he was such a person.

Seriously, I was really worried that Liang Houzai's hand would suddenly lose his strength. Liu Shangang and I protected him left and right, I freed one hand and kept grabbing Liang Houzai's clothes, Liu Shangang didn't have so much strength in his hands, he couldn't grasp the rope with one hand, but he looked at Liang Houzai from time to time, every time he looked at Liang Houzai, the expression on his face was more nervous than Liang Houzai's own.

Fortunately, there was no danger along the way, and after I sent Liang Houzai into the robbery hole, I climbed in with my waist, Liu Shangang followed me, and Huang Changrong walked at the back of the line.

My body is too big, and the thief hole is very narrow, Liang Houzai can squat and walk, but I can only crawl on all fours, and the speed is very slow, so that Liu Shangang and Huang Changrong are dragged down by me, but fortunately, the two of them also know my distress and do not urge me.

The cave was not too deep, and after crawling for about ten meters, we entered a fairly spacious corridor.