Old man Zhou seemed to be frightened by the formation in front of him, and looked at the old men kneeling in front of him in a daze.

"Done... Heart... Wish? Old man Zhou asked.

"That's right," said the old man of the dead ghost first.

"First... Let's get up first..."

"If Mr. Zhou doesn't agree, I won't be able to kneel for a long time..."

"But this..."Old man Zhou's legs trembled, "I answer, promise, you guys get up quickly..."

The old man stood up first, and the old men behind him also got up.

"What do you want me to do with it?" Old man Zhou asked.

"It's a long story, please come to the inner hall and sit down, and wait for me to speak slowly..."

Without saying a word, I followed the old men to one of the rooms. Compared to the outside, this room is more eerie. There was only one large table and a few hoop chairs. Old man Zhou was allowed to sit in the middle, the old man called 'Big Master' sat under him, and the rest of the old men sat on other chairs. I had nowhere to sit, so I stood quietly behind Old Man Zhou. Anyway, everyone was the same air as me, and no one paid any attention to me.

At this time, a servant brought a snack, put it on the table, and withdrew. The 'big man' picked up a piece of cake, handed it to Old Man Zhou, and said, "Just from... Let's tell Mr. Zhou about the past of our family..."

What this dead old man is going to tell you is something I never expected...

The old man said that the ancestor of their family was a retainer of Zhuge Liang during the Shu Han Dynasty, who once followed Zhuge Liang, saddled before and after the horse, and fought in the east and west. Out of gratitude, Zhuge Liang donated a field property given by the emperor to him. Later, after Zhuge Liang died, he built a house on that property, and lived there for generations with his children and grandchildren. After experiencing the two Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the five dynasties of war, the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of Zhuge Liang's retainers, after multiplication, have developed and grown into the local prominent Wang clan. Things have to start with the grandfather of the dead old man in front of him...

The old man said that his grandfather's name was Yang Xiansheng, who was a jinshi in the Yongle period of the great name, and was an official in the imperial court. There are many famous mountains and rivers in Sichuan, temples and temples, and Yang Xiansheng has almost visited them. When he travels, he usually only takes one family member with him as an attendant and bodyguard. One day, he took his family to travel far away in the area of Qionglai Mountain, and when he returned, he encountered heavy rain and a landslide, and the attendant was buried under the landslide. Yang Xian's holy life was relatively large, and in the midst of the crisis, he got into a cave next to him, and then came out from the other end of the cave. Although he escaped, he lost his way. Under the heavy rain, Yang Xiansheng endured hunger, braved the heavy rain, walked for nearly an afternoon, and did not see a family, but a river appeared in front of him, blocking the way. Later, he learned that the river was a tributary of the Min River...

At that time, Yang Xiansheng walked along the river, and he didn't know where to go. When it was about to get dark, due to fatigue, hunger, and panic, Yang Xiansheng finally couldn't walk anymore and fainted by the river. When he awoke, he found himself lying in a thatched hut, surrounded by several 'weirdos' dressed in bark clothes and wearing strange headdresses. Those 'weirdos' were babbling something, and Yang Xiansheng couldn't understand a word. Only later did he learn that it was those 'weirdos' who saved him. Yang Xiansheng suffered from the wind and cold due to the rain, and recuperated in the residence of those 'weirdos' for two or three months.

Yang Xiansheng himself was born as a Jinshi, and he is smart and has rich experience. In those days, he understood the language of the weirdos. As a result, I learned that they were descendants of the ancient Shu nation called the Ran tribe who had disappeared. Their ancestors were originally nobles in charge of religion and sacrifice in the Ran Kingdom. After the collapse of the country, those people took the core of their national religion, which is now a state secret, and moved to an extremely hidden deep mountain located in the lower reaches of the tributary of the Minjiang River, that is, the place where Yang Xiansheng was recuperating...

There were less than a hundred of them, men, women, and children. They don't intermarry with the outside world, and I really don't understand how they reproduce. The so-called 'weird' refers to their clothing, and as for their appearance, they are not very different from people outside the mountain. Therefore, there are many beauties in the eyes of people at that time. In fact, Yang Xiansheng was completely cured of his illness in the first month, and the reason why he lived there and didn't leave was because he took a fancy to a beautiful woman in that tribe...

Later, through in-depth contact, Yang Xiansheng established a relationship with the tribal beauty, and became husband and wife. The two of them have really had a sweet time together. But later, Yang Xiansheng finally left there because he was not used to eating the rough food there, missed the delicacies outside, and the vast world.

He wanted to take the tribal beauty away, but the other party refused. As he went, the girl cried and sent him out of the mountain, and when they parted, they gave him something. It was a little bronze man, and the girl said that it was handed down from her ancestors. After parting, there may never be a day to meet, so when Yang Xiansheng thinks about her, just look at that villain...

In this way, Yang Xiansheng took the villain back to his hometown. Later, because he missed the girl, Yang Xiansheng went back once, but no matter how he looked for it, he couldn't find that place. Later, Yang Xiansheng became the patriarch of their Yang family, and throughout his life, he never forgot the girl, and when he died, he asked his family to bury the bronze man in his tomb...

(I thought to myself, the bronze man that the old man was talking about should be the one I took earlier.) No wonder these dead ghosts knelt down when they saw the bronze man one after another, it turned out to be the stuff of their ancestral patriarch. As for the Ming tomb that Mr. Yang's friend stole back then, and got the bronze man, I think, the owner of the tomb should be this Yang Xiansheng...)

However, no one thought that the burial of the bronze man laid the groundwork for the demise of their Yang family...

Time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, decades have passed. Yang Xiansheng's grandson, the old man of the dead ghost told us about in front of him, also became the patriarch. This year, the family held a big sacrifice. I invited a group of monks and did the ritual for several days. After the sacrifice, in order to accumulate blessings for the family, the patriarch, that is, this old man of the dead ghost, organized people to open a warehouse to put rice, boil porridge, and give alms to the local poor. It was a crowded and spectacular scene, and the almsgiving was carried out until the evening.

Early the next morning, a few housekeepers who got up to clean the scene saw a man in very tattered clothes, lying on the ground licking rice grains. Originally, those family members were about to drive the man away, but the patriarch and old man who happened to pass by saw it and stopped them. Then the old man took the man back and ordered a bowl of rice for him to eat. When the man had finished devouring his food, the old man asked him where he came from. The man seemed to have a barrier in his ability to express himself, stumbling in his speech, and his tone was strange... However, the old man understood, and the man said that he had fled to them. The patriarch saw that he was pitiful and that his body was quite strong, so he kept him and became a subordinate of the Yang family.

The man worked very hard, doing all the hard work. It didn't take long for him to win the trust of the patriarch and make him his own personal chauffeur, helping him catch the car when he went out.

Once, on the way back from worshipping the ancestors in the ancestral hall, I don't know how to talk about it, the patriarch told his grandfather Yang Xiansheng about the past to the coachman. When the driver heard this, he looked so shocked that the car went off the rails and almost crashed into a tree.

When he returned to his lodgings, as soon as the patriarch entered the house, the coachman chased after him, and fell to his knees with a 'plop'. The old man was surprised, and hurriedly asked him what was the matter. The coachman said that he came from the mountain where Yang Xiansheng stayed back then, one of those descendants of the Ran clan. Back then, the bronze man that the tribal beauty gave to Yang Xiansheng was a holy relic of their tribe. In ancient times, the high priest of the Ran clan used it to worship the heavens, and once it was activated in a special way, that thing would have an incredible energy...

No one knows how that tribal beauty got that thing, and for what purpose it was given to Yang Xiansheng. Anyway, after the thing was lost, the patriarch of the tribe checked in the clan and finally found out that the girl did it. According to the ancient rules of the Ran clan, the girl was stripped naked, tied to a snake, and burned alive... The patriarch of that tribe arranged for someone to go out of the mountain to investigate the whereabouts of the bronze man, and this investigation was decades...

The coachman told the patriarch of the Yang family that he was one of the third group of people who were sent out to find the whereabouts of the 'holy relics'. He has been wandering outside for more than ten years, living by begging. He hoped that the patriarch would give him the bronze man and bring him back to the clan...

In this way, the patriarch and the old man made a difficulty, because that thing had already been buried with his grandfather... In modern society, unless it is a relocation, no matter what the reason, no one will do the work of digging their ancestral graves, let alone ancient times? …

The old man had to tell him that the thing could not be handed over to him, and told him the reason truthfully, and told him to go back to his life. Half a month later, the man came back and told the old man that the clan patriarch and the steward of the clan were unwilling, saying that if the bronze man was not handed over, he would not let go of the Yang family. The old man didn't take it seriously, and said in his heart, you guys from the mountains, come to our local area, what can you do to us? So he said to this man, let him go back and intercede for them, which is perfunctory...

One day half a month later, the old man was woken up early in the morning by the shouting outside, and when he went out to look, he saw everyone surrounding a bloody human skin. And that skin is the one who worked as a coachman for the patriarch and the old man in their Yang family before...