"Yes, it's the Great Tomb. This tomb is the burial place of a large family surnamed Chen. The Chen family has been a famous family in the Shanhaiguan area since the time of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and has been trained for hundreds of years until the Qing soldiers entered the customs. More than 200 members of the clan disappeared overnight, and even the body of General Chen Tuo, the only grandson of the Chen family, who died on the battlefield, was missing. A big family that had flourished for a hundred years disappeared without a trace, leaving a big mansion with no anger, and it was destroyed by the Qing army a few years later. ”

"Then do you know why the Chen family all disappeared overnight?" I asked urgently. Shirley Young and the fat man also stared at the old man, and we all knew that this old man was probably the only source of clues we could grasp.

"I don't know, and no one knows." The old man shook his head and sighed. Hearing the old man's answer, we were immediately disappointed. Shirley Yang then asked, "Old man, do you know where the Chen cemetery is?" When the old man heard Shirley Yang's words, he looked at her carefully and asked cautiously, "Girl, what are you asking about this?" Shirley Yang hurriedly replied: "To tell you the truth, one of my fathers I want to call him Uncle Chen, he asked us to find the ancestral grave of the family on our behalf, and there is a poem in the family tree he gave us that mentions Wuliang Mountain, so I suspect that the Chen family you just mentioned is Uncle Chen's family." ”

"Uncle Chen? Can you show me that genealogy? The old man said.

Shirley Yang was about to pull out his backpack when I stopped him. I turned to the old man and asked, "Old man, dare to ask how you know about the Chen family's affairs so clearly?" Who are you? "This old man knows so much about the affairs of the Chen family, which can't help but make me have some suspicions. When the old man saw that I had stopped Shirley Yang, he looked me up and down carefully, and said slowly, "The contemptible surname is Chen." ”

"Could it be that you are a descendant of the Chen family?" I was shocked and asked, "But didn't you say that the Chen family disappeared overnight?" ”

"I'm not a descendant of the Chen family." The old man replied unhurriedly. When the fat man heard the old man say this, he almost raised his fist and wanted to beat him: "It's not the descendant of the Chen family, what is your surname Chen, what are you selling, are you playing us, hey, fat man, I have a violent temper." The old man hurriedly said, "Although I am not a descendant of the Chen family, the ancestor of my family is the housekeeper of the Chen family. Because of his many years of hard work and hard work with the Chen family, he was rewarded with a large piece of land by the Chen family, and allowed his children to have the surname Chen and study with the children of the Chen family. Therefore, although Lao Yu is not a descendant of the Chen family, he is also surnamed Chen. ”

"Butler?" I wondered. "Yes, housekeeper, the ancestors of my family also disappeared together on the night when the Chen clan disappeared, and the remaining children know some stories of the Chen clan sporadically, and there are not many left after so many years of oral transmission." The old man's words surprised me and Shirley Yang, and it seemed that things were a little more complicated. But that's a good thing, at least we can grasp the clue and have some clues.

"Then are there two big families surnamed Chen in this Shanhaiguan area?" Shirley Young asked. "No, absolutely not, the Shanhaiguan area was not a big county during the Ming Dynasty, don't look at Chen is not a special surname, but the surname Chen in Shanhaiguan is this household." The old man replied affirmatively.